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Self-driving cars could literally reshape the Canadian landscape
July 28, 2016 | Categories: Canadian Road Safety News Digest, News
AutoFocus (TORONTO, ONTARIO)
There’s been some discussion about how autonomous vehicles (AVs) will change the way we drive—but not as much about how they’ll change what we drive on. We look at the future of roads, traffic and infrastructure in the age of self-driving cars
…Infrastructure changes won’t happen overnight. “There will likely be a long period of time where we have a mixed fleet of both AVs and traditional vehicles that will require traditional infrastructure,” says Mike Barnet, senior project engineer, intelligent transportation systems for Ontario’s Ministry of Transportation.