The auto industry is moving rapidly to an AV-based, mobility service business model and once these vehicles become common, their negative impacts on our roads will quickly become apparent. With major investments in transportation-related infrastructure underway or about to begin in many nations around the world, MDC believes in the need to stop putting in 20th-century streets, based on out-of-date assumptions about street design and vehicle needs, and start installing AV-ready streets in preparation for what is to come.
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The full transition of our streets and roads from the accommodation of horses to cars took longer than the transition to the vehicles themselves: many rural areas still have dirt or gravel roads over one hundred years after the shift in our transportation system. The transition of our current road infrastructure to one that is AV-ready will likely take a long time to evolve as well. Which is why we need to begin now. The Future Streets publication offers ways that communities can begin to implement AV-ready roads.
