Researchers look into keeping autonomous vehicles from becoming mobile vomitoriums

If you're like me, and I'm just going to assume most of you are, motion sickness is a serious consideration on any car trip where you're not driving. The study, at the University of Michigan, was undertaken because the researchers realized that if millions of people can't read or do work in autonomous vehicles, that massively reduces the draw of using them in the first place. "Very few studies have been conducted in cars; instead, a lot of the work has been done for sea and air transportation modes, performed in driving simulators or on motion platforms," explained lead investigator for the project, Monica Jones, in a university news release.