INTRO

Over time, technological inventions have emerged and have impacted the lives of specific societies and some others globally. Many of them have partially and even radically transformed both home life and the different existing industries. Mobility is a key element for the survival of the human being, but especially for the flow of the economy, mainly if we talk about the movement of heritage goods and the offer of services of different nature.

In logistics, which represents one of the largest expenses of companies, the automobile, one of the inventions developed by the human being, is one of the main tools that facilitate the mobility of objects and people. Due to the range of its use since its invention, and the strong influence it has on the lives of people in general, companies have not stopped investing in the car industry to generate innovation on vehicles, which now obviously are no longer just of gas, but also electric.

The rapid pace with which technology advances has brought new lifestyles that society has gradually adapted, so that there is a degree to which they normalize it. Currently, speaking of mobility and vehicles, most are land vehicles that need fuels such as gasoline to achieve their main goal, although today, electric vehicles are slightly present, and some others, propose new technologies in such a way that they offer a high degree of autonomy.

According to the DGT, an autonomous vehicle is one that has a driving capacity equipped with technology that allows its handling or driving without specifying the active form of control or supervision of a driver, whether or not such autonomous technology was activated or deactivated temporarily or permanent. It is of these autonomous vehicles that we will be talking about in the following post on this blog , especially their relationship with the logistics issue.

Sources: 


-    CNAE. (2016). Coche autónomo, seguridad vial y formación de conductores. 22/08/2019, de Universitat de Valencia Sitio web: 

OBJECTIVE

Hi Everyone.

This blog is created with the purpose of sharing some news and information about autonomous vehicles related to  Logistics. I hope we could everyone comment on the nexts posts that will be uploaded periodically and give each other helpful and interesting feedback about the topic.

I chose this topic because I've always been interested in vehicles in general, but specially in cars. Besides, logistics has been one the main  areas of my interests since I entered studying my major in International Business, and distribution is a vital point in the value chain, therefore the evolution of it the new technology that could be implemented such as autonomous vehicles, play role that could change some  rules of the actual game.