"This paper will address current progress and direction for autonomous vehicles, what this could mean for the future of transport and the possible analytical approaches to addressing these impacts."

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The issues with emerging autonomous vehicles that still need to be addressed are the technology, laws, marketability, use of electric vehicles and employment impacts.

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"They predict that vehicles without a legal driver will be possible by 2050."

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"Autonomous Vehicles have the potential to lead to very large increases in both average trip length and in total travel time. The reason for this is that the increased comfort associated with automatic driving make travellers less sensitive to travel times - they will travel more often and will be willing to stay in their vehicles longer."

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