Posted Tuesday, June 24, 2025 at 10:51pm
Whether they’re from Silicon Valley or the Motor City, companies around the world are trying to make truly autonomous cars a reality. Most of those companies are attempting this from the car side of things. The car handles everything: it has sensors to read the road, and on-board computers to process what’s happening and to control the vehicle as needed. The advantage of this technique is that the cars can, hypothetically, operate on any road, and no special infrastructure is necessary. The downside is that these cars rely solely on what they can see and sense, and that can be limited. The cars might not even register that information correctly, such as with bad roads, bad weather, and more real-world conditions. To alleviate some of those problems, Subaru is working on another idea that involves roads that can talk with the cars.
