**2. Autonomous vehicles: the perspective of collisions**

Recently, the importance of the unmanned autonomous vehicles for every day, industrial and military applications are rapidly increasing, regarding the demand of the market. It is complex enough not to start the mass productions for today, especially manufacturing ability in excessive numbers of the automobile industry is considered. But, when the issue is saving a human being, we should reconsider everything referring the military developments against terrorism or wars. The defense industry focuses on the aerial vehicles to check the required zones and decrease the threats by the enemies or the terrorists. An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) shown in **Figure 2** in Ref. [13], widely used as a drone, or an unmanned aircraft system (UAS), and also referred by several other names, defines an aircraft without a human pilot. Therefore, an aircraft without a pilot means, alive human, but in the right hands yet, this sophisticated technology will be so perilous against innocents. And also, the more professio‐ nally UAS requires the more trained and talented personnel in particular formidable and arduous duties. This can possibly cause unexpected mistakes during the tasks that provoke impacts and collisions.

**Figure 2.** Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE) UAV of Turkish Aerospace Industries, Inc.

**Figure 3.** Google self-driving car.

The technological improvements in numerous dissimilar segments are effecting the UAV technology too, like media and entertainment. With the help of the lately used drones are easily operated, simple and cheap widely used by the professionals likewise amateurs in various applications. This option introduces some hazardous results with the ease of the system. Although the price of the simple applications like drones less when it is compared with the complex vehicles, consequences could be analogous.

If we focus on the automobile industry some leading companies like Google have been paying attention for autonomous cars for a while. See **Figure 3** [14]. After spending many years to research and development, the shown up products of UAV technology on the roads are a quite impressive story.

With regret, even for the finest tech. companies, some of the undesired incidents bring about the damaging results of the UAV. The self-driving car of the Google collided with a public transportation bus in California, USA (**Figure 4** in [15]) on February 14, 2016. In spite of the highly developed vehicle technology, it is indispensable to face with collisions for some cases.

zones and decrease the threats by the enemies or the terrorists. An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) shown in **Figure 2** in Ref. [13], widely used as a drone, or an unmanned aircraft system (UAS), and also referred by several other names, defines an aircraft without a human pilot. Therefore, an aircraft without a pilot means, alive human, but in the right hands yet, this sophisticated technology will be so perilous against innocents. And also, the more professio‐ nally UAS requires the more trained and talented personnel in particular formidable and arduous duties. This can possibly cause unexpected mistakes during the tasks that provoke

**Figure 2.** Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE) UAV of Turkish Aerospace Industries, Inc.

The technological improvements in numerous dissimilar segments are effecting the UAV technology too, like media and entertainment. With the help of the lately used drones are easily operated, simple and cheap widely used by the professionals likewise amateurs in various applications. This option introduces some hazardous results with the ease of the system. Although the price of the simple applications like drones less when it is compared with the

If we focus on the automobile industry some leading companies like Google have been paying attention for autonomous cars for a while. See **Figure 3** [14]. After spending many years to

impacts and collisions.

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**Figure 3.** Google self-driving car.

complex vehicles, consequences could be analogous.

Whatever is done or planned for evolving the UAVs, sometimes these vehicles encounter with inevitable problems, and thus, it will be concluded with accidents as it was not planned. Under these circumstances, vehicle safety and crash worthiness should be taken care of in a compre‐ hensive viewpoint.
