[lifeformed]

I'd be fine with a car that was automated only on highways. I could drive manually on local routes, and then for big journeys I would just head on the highway and turn on autopilot and take a nap, and wake up the next morning in Yellowstone or something.

It seems like standardizing information about just highways would be magnitudes easier than getting every single local route right. Companies could work with the government to standardize traffic and construction pylons/signals to be ideal for detection by robot cars. Traffic, construction, weather, and accident information for highways could all be standardized.

[thebiglebrewski]

THIS THIS THIS. Why is no company working on this? This really seems like it could already be here...just use the HOV lanes!