Assessing the Development of Autonomous Cars

With recent innovations regarding autonomous vehicles and the fact that several vehicle brands have started to deploy autonomous driving functionalities, it is still unknown what these innovations may offer to social lives. Owing to the ability to autonomously drive from one location to another, the concept of shared autonomous vehicles was created to let an individual turn their assets into a source of income while other individuals could use this service without having to own a vehicle. The development of this emerging concept was aided by an evaluation of an ontology already presented regarding the topic of shared autonomous vehicles performed by three different frameworks (OQuaRE, OntoMetrics and OOPS) that generally agreed with the validity of the proposed ontology.