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Connected vehicles save the environment

“How can we improve Earth environmental conditions?”

Although the historic agreement in Paris Summit tends to decrease greenhouse gases, good solutions to reach such mission remain uncertain. However, idea of self-driving can be a significant help from many points of view.

Firstly, connected vehicles are smaller and much lighter. Furthermore, they benefit from being mostly electrical that promises reducing carbon emissions. They also facilitate ride sharing especially during peak hours and on certain routes. Expanding the idea of connected vehicle to transportation system increases multi-modal travel. Given this, the demand for private cars will decrease which leads greenhouse gases to rocket down.

On the other hand, a recent survey in Columbia University showed that connected vehicles will significantly increase the highway capacity which decreases the need for driving infrastructure and saving more green land, along with efficient riding that decreases greenhouse emission. As a future perspective, we predict that spreading connected vehicles eliminates the need for driving signs and all the facilities needed for them as a consequence of putting them virtually in the vehicle’s control software.