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5 reasons why autonomous cars aren’t coming anytime soon

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In the world of autonomous vehicles, Pittsburgh and Silicon Valley are bustling hubs of development and testing. But ask those involved in self-driving vehicles when we might actually see them carrying passengers in every city, and you’ll get an almost universal answer: Not anytime soon.

An optimistic assessment is 10 years. Many others say decades as researchers try to conquer a number of obstacles. The vehicles themselves will debut in limited, well-mapped areas within cities and spread outward.

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  1. Russ Fletcher on February 4, 2019 at 12:18 pm

    Several of these challenges are why those forward thinking and innovative cities are planning for autonomous vehicles now. These include, educating the public, re-thinking potential travel paths, sensors embedded in roadways, designated areas where autonomous cars can wait for requests instead of just cruising around, bulb ins along curbs so vehicles can pick up and drop off riders without slowing traffic, utilizing lane and cross walk striping that can be read by autonomous cars and, above all, implementing development policies that acknowledge the end of “carcatecture”.

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