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Today’s automobile needs a great deal of infrastructure to be useful. A major part of the infrastructure is the civil transportation system consisting of roads, traffic control, and static signage. More recently, an information layer has been added to this infrastructure which consists of dynamic signage, metering systems, cellular coverage (enabling mapping applications), and sensors (camera, fog, etc) for traffic optimization. To date, the focus has been to provide safe traction, traffic management, and safety information. Perception and decision-making tasks were left to the driver.