How Washington state could turn freeways over to self-driving cars
Originally published at My Northwest. You typically see two types of lines on the freeway as you drive: yellow stripes along the shoulder, and reflective white stripes separating the lanes. You might not think much about them, but a self-driving car does. If state planners start now, modifying those lines will be just one aspect of serving a self-driving future on I-5, replacing human drivers. “For the next 20 years, you get to coexist with these automated vehicles, so we want the human driver to see better performance from pavement marking and signing, while at the same time we want to make sure that machine-vision systems — that autonomous vehicles are using — also can see those pavement markings and Read More ›