“IEEE
envisions an absence of traffic signals and lights since highly evolved,
self-driving cars won’t need them, and it believes that full deployment could
even eliminate the need for driver’s licenses,” the article states.
“People do
not need a license to sit on a train or a bus,” the director of IEEE’s Center
for Intelligent Systems Research says in the article. “In a full autonomy case
in which no driver intervention will be allowed, the car will be operating. So
there will not be any special requirements for drivers or occupants to use the
vehicle as a form of transportation.”
IEEE
predicts that driver reluctance to “let go of the steering wheel” will be a
bigger barrier to the adoption of self-driving vehicles than technological issues.
