Terrestrial Autonomous Vehicles: Exploratory Study and Perspectives of the Interaction of Blind People in the Urban Environment Fernanda Cristine da Silva ( ✉ ) , Virgínia Kistmann, and Maria Lúcia Okimoto Design Pos-Graduate Program, Federal University of Paraná, Rua XV de Novembro, 1299 - Centro, Curitiba, PR 80060-000, Brazil fercristine88@gmail.com, {vkistmann,lucia.demec}@ufpr.br Abstract. This article contributes to the discussion about autonomous vehicles and impaired people. It presents a bibliographic survey, followed by the explor‐ atory study with interviews with two blinded people and with an expert from automobile industry. It argues that to contain these emphases and gaps it is neces‐ sary to map the process of dislocation of blind people guided by a computational system, considering all type of obstacle encountered and to promote studies in the scope of Design, Engineering and Assistive Technology (AT). Keywords: Autonomous vehicles · Blind people · Urban mobility Assistive Technologies (AT) · User experience (UX) 1 Introduction One of the great challenge of research today is to develop coherent scenarios of a driver- less future by the means of historical analysis, concise assumptions, predictions and simulations. This theme is being promoted by some companies like Google, Tesla, Uber and, in China, Google’s competitor Baidu. Also, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has been delivering excellent results in the area of standalone navigation. As evidenced by the DARPA challenges on autonomous driving [1], huge progress has been made just in the last decade. And, in order to standardize discussions about autonomous vehicles technology, the NHTSA defined of automation in self-driving cars [2]. Recent perspectives on the impact of autonomous vehicles with driving on highways are already in course. Tesla soon will test these vehicles on a large scale in Gothenburg [3]. And recent studies in Germany, Zurich [4] on that scale has already been reached. According to Pissardini [5] terrestrial autonomous vehicles are a motorized type guided autonomously by a computer system, without the need for human intervention. The human assistance from automated, semi-autonomous and autonomous systems is a trend deriving from technological evolution. However, for displacement in the user experience (UX) in urban planning, one has a variable of great impact and importance, the environment. © Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2019 F. Rebelo and M. M. Soares (Eds.): AHFE 2018, AISC 777, pp. 293–302, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94706-8_33