Self-driving vehicles could increase the likelihood of motion sickness in some riders, suggests a UMTRI study released last week. Motion sickness, also known as “kinetosis,” is a condition marked by symptoms of nausea, dizziness and other physical discomfort. Three factors that contribute to motion sickness — conflict between vestibular and visual inputs, inability to anticipate the direction of motion, and the lack of control over the direction of motion — could be elevated in self-driving vehicles, the researchers noted.
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Riding in Driverless Cars Could Be Sickening
Posted by: Peter Suciu April 17, 2015 10:49 AMSelf-driving vehicles could increase the likelihood of motion sickness in some riders, suggests a UMTRI study released last week. Motion sickness, also known as “kinetosis,” is a condition marked by symptoms of nausea, dizziness and other physical discomfort. Three factors that contribute to motion sickness — conflict between vestibular and visual inputs, inability to anticipate the direction of motion, and the lack of control over the direction of motion — could be elevated in self-driving vehicles, the researchers noted.