Autonomous Vehicles in Developing Countries: A Case Study on User's View Point in Bangladesh

Autonomous vehicles are becoming increasingly popular, not only for people who rely on them to get around but also for trend includes a range of self-driving robots used outdoors, primarily on earth or water, on both private property and public roads. This trend focuses on vehicles that are fully driverless or at least highly automated, occasionally controlled by a human driver.

The dream of self-driving cars is decades old. With the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI), edge computing, and sensor technology, all types of highly automated vehicles have been launched in recent years, and fully automated vehicles were tested for the first time. We are getting closer to reality. TuSimple, a startup based in the United States, completed the first fully autonomous articulated truck on public roads. A few months later, a Japanese consortium of cargo companies successfully sailed and docked the world's first fully autonomous container ship without a crew. In the logistics industry, manufacturers, owners and lessees of vehicles of all kinds are looking forward to future developments, not just for transportation, but for all possible use cases along the supply chain.

The trend toward autonomous outdoor vehicles will have a major impact on logistics. Because it will radically transform the operational tasks of human workers and how customers interact with logistics providers in the Last Her Mile and elsewhere. However, there is still a long way to go in realizing this trend. While some use cases on private fenced land have already started to be implemented, self-driving on public roads requires public trust. It will be many years before people trust fully autonomous technologies and regulations allow them to be used unhindered on a global scale.

So far, no significant work has been done to explore user perceptions of self-driving cars in developing countries like Bangladesh. In Bangladesh, several universities such as BUET, BRAC and North-South University have already started research on self-driving cars. [1]