Autonomous or self-driving vehicles may come with a negative side-effect that will rekindle memories of long childhood car journeys punctuated by queasiness and emergency roadside stops. A new research study suggests that motion sickness is expected to be more of an issue in self-driving vehicles than in conventional vehicles.
Researchers at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) say that the three main factors contributing to motion sickness (conflict between vestibular and visual inputs, inability to anticipate the direction of motion, and lack of control over the direction of motion) are elevated in self-driving vehicles.
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