7 Ways Self-Driving Cars Could Impact States and Localities – 5 confounding questions

A transportation network where cars and trucks no longer need drivers seems tantalizingly close. Google, Carnegie Mellon University and automakers are testing out their own autonomous vehicles. The federal government has started to plan so that vehicles can communicate with each other. But the reality is the country will still have to wait several years before the vehicles leave the experimental stage.

by Daniel C. Vock

Full Story: http://www.governing.com/topics/transportation-infrastructure/gov-driverless-cars-impact-states-localities.html

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5 confounding questions that hold the key to the future of driverless cars

Outside of the world of transportation planning, driverless cars feel far away, a fantasy that many still don’t buy. Here, though — inside the Washington convention center, where 12,000 transportation wonks have been hunkered all week — the people charged with planning, constructing and studying how we get around are already deeply consumed by the subject.

By Emily Badger

Full Story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/01/15/5-confounding-questions-that-hold-the-key-to-the-future-of-driverless-cars/