Car sickness can make road to self-driving vehicles very bumpy
NEW YORK: The day is approaching when commuters stuck in soul-crushing traffic will be freed from the drudgery of driving. Companies are investing billions to devise sensors and algorithms so we motorists can turn our attention to where we like it these days: our phones.
But before the great promise of multitasking on the road can be realised, we need to overcome an age-old problem: motion sickness. “The autonomous vehicle community understands this is a real problem it has to deal with,” said Monica Jones, a transportation researcher at the University of Michigan. “That motivates me to be very systematic.”