If the road has to be made into a ‘smart road’, it isn’t really a ‘self driving car’ at all.
I guarantee that kids born today...and kids born 20 years from now...will still drive cars.
That part of the article confused the heck out of me. What they're describing here isn't even new. It's actually a step back to the days before satellite-based global positioning technology replaced fiber-optic infrastructure as the preferred mode of communication for these "next generation" road/vehicle systems.