About 250 million passenger vehicles crowd American roads, according to the U.S. Bureau of Transportation statistics. They take different paths, yet new models move ever closer to a common goal: autonomy. This infographic by AutoInsurance. US shows that Google has been out front in the autonomous vehicle effort, modifying a fleet of cars – mostly Toyota Priuses – with self-driving technology and testing them. It plans to take its technology to market in 2018.
But are drivers – and states – ready for it? Maybe not. Only about 17.8% of respondents to the AutoInsurance.us poll said they would buy a self-driving car. And state legislatures are only beginning to consider how to regulate the technology.
Stanford University's Center for Internet and Society monitors the progress states have made formulating, considering, and passing autonomous-driving legislation. So far, California, Florida, Nevada, and the District of Colombia have adopted measures. But they've mostly stuck to defining autonomous vehicles and directing their DMVs to create rules for them before 2015.
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