Is this a movie?

The future is going to be interesting. The products lined up are straight from the movies. Transportation is a key area that is set to improve as the days go by. The history of transportation has been an ever-progressive one with better products coming periodically. From recent trends in car manufacturers and other vehicle manufactures, the world seems to have reached a sort of peak. There are hardly any new innovations that come up in vehicles with a few structural modifications and efficiency leading the changes. Driving has becoming less of an excitement and even less of a necessity in recent times. Studies have shown that in future mobility-as-a-service will take over the need to own cars and other vehicles. It may seem somewhat ambitious but this is likely the future of transportation, doing its basic function, taking goods and people from one place to another. What seems to be the only exciting change that may survive well into the future is autonomous vehicles.

Why autonomous vehicles may be a necessity

The world is at an unpredictable financial state. Britain shocked the world with ‘Brexit’, they decided to move out of the European Union and no concrete deals and agreements are being arrived on. The United States is teasing trade wars with a number of countries as its foreign policy changes with its current leader. This is obviously going to strain various economies and very soon owning a car may be a luxury few can afford. Furthermore, there is already a build-up in second hand vehicles as a result of an increase in the number of cars being leased. Car loans are increasing in developed and developing countries such that some analysts predict a looming financial crisis may come as a result of increased loans and uncertain financial times.
Autonomous vehicles are offering what manual vehicles cannot in terms of service and the cushion they can offer the economy. When joined with Blockchain technology, as the Decentralized Autonomous Vehicle (DAV) platform is attempting, the world is looking at a Hollywood-like future. Autonomous vehicles can serve nearly all the requirements passengers have. They can swiftly and safely move passengers from place to place by the tap of a screen. The convenience that can be created around autonomous vehicles would be enough to make car ownership decline drastically as the mobility-as-a-service demand is created and grows into the most sought out transport service.

Available technology

Autonomous vehicles are already in existence. Cruise control, lane maintenance and semiautonomous technology is available in most vehicles. For fully autonomous vehicles, things are getting better with their production and running getting cheaper by the day. Radar service providers are getting cheaper. Autonomous car radars used to cost close to US$75,000 but innovation has brought these prices way down to about US$8,000 which improves greatly the chances of these services becoming available to the public.
Self-driving Ubers and autonomous drones are already in use, or being tested in various places around the world. Their success rate is commendable with very few crashes being recorded. It is time that man embraces technology and abandons skepticism or the inadequate trust man has in autonomous technology.

The future with autonomous vehicles
Here’s a glimpse of what DAV plans to do with the available and future tech in autonomous vehicles,
• Transport upon request. The DAV platform hopes to have autonomous transport providers registered in their platform. Users will enjoy transport upon request and affordable rates that will be payable through DAV token. After downloading the DAV application for smartphones, users can register, get unique identification from DAV and use these identifications to make requests for mobility-as-a-service vehicles that will all be autonomous. These services may even include drones that can accommodate passengers.
• Delivery solutions. Delivery through drones is becoming popular. More corporations are testing out how viable they can be for their businesses. Same-day deliveries are likely to benefit most from this kind of service. Fastfood deliveries can be made faster without any hindrances such as traffic jams or any form of human error. There is still a lot of research going on on the viability of drone as delivery vehicles and even as transport solutions for humans. DAV will ensure that whenever this occurs, its users are among the first to experience these services through its platform.
• Support service for autonomous vehicles. Self-driving cars and autonomous drones will require services that support the service they do. Parking, storage and charging stations are required to have a fully operational system such as what DAV is creating through its platform. DAV will also host service providers involved in maintenance of autonomous vehicles or parking of such vehicles. DAV plans on having a fully-loaded platform providing every necessary service to autonomous cars.

Convenience and efficiency, DAV may bring this to the transport industry. Autonomous vehicles move only according to the data that it has been fed with. However, with increasing technology in artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles may even be programmed to behave a certain way or learn from the observations made with their sensors. Better decisions are likely to be executed by autonomous vehicle, be it cars or drones. Speed limits will be followed, zebra crossings will be respected and all other traffic laws are likely to be obeyed by machines compared to man. Furthermore, the fact that autonomous vehicles are all electric makes them more appropriate as developed countries seek to phase out fossil fuel use especially on vehicles.
The world may still have some way to go before it achieves a fully integrated autonomous vehicle service system. DAV is however leading the way and, equipped with Blockchain technology, it has the right tools to keep the autonomous vehicle scene secured and decentralized. The token economics also support the growth of the platform as well as the growth of their users. With DAV, it’s a win-win situation for all involved parties. DAV currently have an ongoing token sale where the DAV tokens are being sold. The sale ends on 25th of June. If interested, one can purchase the DAV tokens awaiting the realization of decentralized autonomous vehicle services.

Links;
Website : http://dav.network/
Tokensale : https://dav.network/#tokensale
WhitePaper : https://dav.network/whitepaper.pdf

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