Abstract
Road traffic injuries cause colossal socio-economic damage to the society as a whole and irreplaceable losses for injured persons and their relatives. Huge amount of road and transport accidents are caused by human error. The paper studies statistics of road accident rate and influence of human factor on safety. In connection with revealed direct dependence of accident rate and the severity of its consequences on the driver errors, the evolutional path from vehicles without automation of any functions to entirely autonomous vehicles is considered in the paper. In continuation of the dynamic evolution of vehicles, the perspectives for the development of active and passive safety of vehicles are proposed. Reducing the need for full or partial control of a car by the driver provides ample opportunities for people with disabilities to use them, which is an additional incentive to the development of autonomous vehicles. Due to the existing difficulties caused by the unavailability of either road users or legislative or regulatory authorities for switching to autonomous vehicles, there may be scientific and related problems in their implementation in the Russian transport system.
Highlights
It is impossible to imagine the life of modern society without automotive technologies
The constant development of motor vehicles and the increase in the level of motorization directly affects the safety of road traffic, namely the accident rate and related road traffic injuries
One of the tools to increase the level of road safety and reduce socio-economic damage from road accidents in the RF should be the Federal target program «Improving road safety in 2013-2020»
Summary
It is impossible to imagine the life of modern society without automotive technologies. One of the tools to increase the level of road safety and reduce socio-economic damage from road accidents in the RF should be the Federal target program «Improving road safety in 2013-2020». Its analogue (the Federal target program «Improving road safety in 20062012») was implemented in 2012, the success of its implementation can be judged by considering table 1 [4,5,6,8]. As a result of the implementation of the Program, a decrease was achieved in comparison with 2004: transport risk by 44.8%; social risk by 22.7%; severity of the accident consequences by 24.0%; number of children killed in road accidents by 37.2%; reduction of the number of road accidents with victims by 10 thousand vehicles by 29.8%
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