You should take claims of self-driving cars being road-ready soon with a 50-pound bag of salt, not a grain.
While automakers, suppliers and ride providers such as Uber race to develop and deploy the technology, one aspect of self-driving cars is not being reported on much, if at all: The nation’s infrastructure is simply not ready for cars that can drive themselves 100 percent safely, 100 percent of the time.
As of now, there are no federal funds specifically committed to getting public roads prepared for self-driving cars. The $4 billion that President Barack Obama has proposed to spend over the next 10 years for autonomous driving doesn’t cover fixing the nation’s roads and infrastructure. It’s a proposed investment in “real-world pilot projects.”
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