Pathways to adoption for autonomous driving infrastructure
It is commonly believed that level 5 autonomy is at least a decade away. But ADAS (advanced driver assist systems) with geofenced autonomous vehicles is on the horizon in the next two to three years. Hardware is advancing quickly, with the cost of LIDAR dropping and GPU capacity going up significantly over the last five years. Currently, the architecture of the autonomous vehicle is not converging, the public and private sector are working in a siloed manner, standards are not widely accepted, and infrastructure is well behind even present-day needs. All these things make it challenging for accelerated AV (autonomous vehicle) adoption.