Smart road infrastructure to play a key role in self-driving technology

Posted on 11 Nov 2016 by Aiden Burgess

In a 21st century world dominated and driven by groundbreaking technology, driverless cars are set to be the future of transport.

While the on-board equipment inside these vehicles may lay at the heart of  driving this new technology, researchers at the University of Michigan’s Mobility Transportation Center (MTC) have proposed that the vehicles’ ability to communicate with smart road infrastructure is likely to be equally as important. The researchers studied how this smart road infrastructure will…

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