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In recent times, African nations have been mostly absent in discussions concerning artificial intelligence (AI)-powered driverless cars. Additionally, it was also discovered that several global surveys and other studies on driverless car acceptance, popularity and confidence excluded Africa. This is in the light of its immense benefits which include the reduction of road accidents, an effectual car-sharing and transport structure and accurate navigation with less consideration of distractions. Therefore, we examined the challenges and risks attendant to the deployment of self-driving cars in a developing region such as Africa. Several challenges were identified, and they include lack of needed infrastructure, absence of law and order, cost, absence of image detection and recognition projects, absence of practical artificial intelligence courseware, need for an advanced AI-based algorithm, weak legal framework and other ethical issues, criminalization, security and privacy and high tendency to cause more unemployment. The paper highlights several risks attendant to such forms of advancement in Africa.
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Nwokoye, C.H., Okeke, V.O.S., Roseline, P., Okoronkwo, E. (2022). The Mythical or Realistic Implementation of AI-powered Driverless Cars in Africa: A Review of Challenges and Risks. In: Zhang, YD., Senjyu, T., So-In, C., Joshi, A. (eds) Smart Trends in Computing and Communications. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 286. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4016-2_65
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