Autonomous vehicles, such as cars, trucks, and drones, rely on artificial intelligence to operate with varying degrees of human input. For a transcript, please visit https://climatebreak.org/ev-charging-vehicle-to-grid-integration-with-scott-moura/
For a transcript, please visit https://climatebreak.org/ev-charging-vehicle-to-grid-integration-with-scott-moura/
Ethan: Will vehicle automation help make transportation more energy efficient? This is Ethan Elkind of Climate Break. I spoke with Scott Moura, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley, about the potential impact of infrastructure-to-vehicle communication.
Prof. Moura: Imagine a world where traffic lights broadcast to your vehicle, they're scheduled for when they're red or green. Now you can think about your own commuting and there's probably roads that you drive down fairly often, and you've got a good sense of the timing, right? So how do you actually embed that into an automated vehicle? If you can do that right, then you can avoid stopping.
Ethan: When cars don't have to switch gears as often or as quickly, they maintain higher fuel economy.
Prof. Moura: If you can reduce the amount of braking, you also eliminate emissions that come from the brake pads and the tires from that perspective, which have health impacts that we're only beginning to understand in science.
Ethan: In the near future, Moura hopes cities across the country will dedicate more urban zones to emissions reduction.
Prof. Moura: I would love to see policy, more policy in that direction to use our cities as innovative test beds and examples to the rest of the world, of how can this be done.
Ethan: For further information on Moura’s work at UC Berkeley, and for more climate solutions go to climatebreak.org or wherever you get your podcasts.