A Green Light for AV’s
Self-driving vehicles are coming to a street near you. Cities must have a plan to address them.
By Brooks Rainwater ContributorNov. 7, 2018, at 9:22 a.m.
U.S. News & World Report
Autonomous Vehicles: Coming to a Street Near You
Today, it is no longer a question of whether cars will drive themselves, but rather when this will happen at scale.
Ford Motor Co. announced last month that driverless cars are coming to the streets of our nation's capital. With this latest addition, Ford will be piloting autonomous vehicles in Washington, Detroit, Miami and Pittsburgh. Add just one other company – Waymo – and the map of corporate pilot programs expands to 15 Californian cities, six Arizona cities and to Austin and Atlanta and beyond. By one count, at least 46 companies are piloting these vehicles in cities across the country and the world. Even cities themselves are getting into the game by testing autonomous shuttles. The way we all get around is transforming as firms invest billions of dollars to develop, test and deploy autonomous vehicles on urban streets.
Fifty percent of large American cities are now exploring how to integrate self-driving vehicles into their long-range transportation plans – up from under 10 percent in 2015. Before long, autonomous vehicles will be ubiquitous on our roadways, but the full story has not yet been written.
https://www.usnews.com/news/cities/articles/2018-11-07/cities-must-plan-for-the-arrival-of-self-driving-cars
