Chapter 8 - Man-and-wife coupling and need for artificially intelligent heavy vehicle technology in The Long, Long Trailer

Abstract

This interdisciplinary study prepares the way for conventional scientific articles that specify how artificial intelligence (AI) may improve utilization of heavy vehicles in the civilian sector with specific reference to mobile trailer homes. The aim is to shed new light on some of the challenges involved in owning and operating a connected heavy vehicle that consists of a detachable car hitched to a trailer home, while arguing that AI may serve public safety needs for connected heavy vehicle technology (HVT). Within the heterogeneous heavy vehicle market, the civilian market segment is important because, even though it represents a relatively small percentage of the total market, its minimal presence allows it to remain largely unregulated. This chapter aims to call attention to the fact that owners and operators of connected heavy vehicles in the civilian sector should be equally as knowledgeable and skilled as professionally licensed drivers of commercially owned vehicles who have to comply with governmentally regulated laws for heavy industrial-strength vehicles. Empirical analysis argues that subtextual AI/HVT imagery in a cinematographically configured work of art, which is ostensibly meant to elicit laughter and be entertaining, demonstrably veils a serious ethical concern in evoking a need for future AI research and development in modern HVT design, manufacture, and implementation. Primary stress is on the necessity of providing education and training for users. This chapter suggests that AI for HVT can play a key role in helping to cultivate both intelligence and moral consciousness in the civilian population, assuming it can learn how to take advantage of AI for HVT.