Preparing a nation for autonomous vehicles: opportunities, barriers and policy recommendations

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) represent a potentially disruptive yet beneficial change to our transportation system. This new technology has the potential to impact vehicle safety, congestion, and travel behavior. All told, major social AV impacts in the form of crash savings, travel time reduction, fuel efficiency and parking benefits are estimated to approach 2000 to per year per AV, and may eventually approach nearly 000 when comprehensive...