INTERIM: 4 Pros for Self Driving Cars. 5 Legislative Proposals

The benefits of self driving cars:

• greatly reduce crashes
• reducing congestion
• increasing mobility for the disabled
• improving land use by converting existing urban parking spaces to other uses

Legislative Proposals:

• Public-private partnerships with cities, like Somerville, MA’s partnership with Audi
• Legislation needs to address the varying environmental conditions that self driving cars will face
• Legislation should assure the reliability of the technology
• Legislatures must fund investments in infrastructure communication equipment
• Legislatures need to address  cybersecurity from cars being hacked to the data stored or transmitted to communication infratructure for self driving cars

Governing | Tailoring Our Transportation Systems for Self-Driving Cars