I brought this up in the other article, but we need to start making changes to the road system itself for autonomous cars to work. Nothing major that will involve any construction or anything, but ways for the road to “talk” to autonomous cars at a local level. Some way to tell the car that there is a stop sign or…

As long as “autonomous” cars require HD maps to cross reference with what they see, they aren’t really autonomous, they are just slot cars on digital tracks. They need to see and react to their surroundings in real time, not rely on database updates on construction, etc. No thanks.