The success of autonomous vehicles hinges on smart cities. Inrix is making it easier to build them
Signs are an effective way to communicate with a human driver, but self-driving vehicles? Not so much. A can of spray paint or black tape is all you need to trick some AVs into driving the wrong speed limit (that really happened). What’s needed is a way to communicate official parking rules, speed limits, and legitimate traffic variances, and right now there isn’t an easy way to explain to self-driving cars that “alternative side of the street parking” is in effect because of a parade. But Inrix has developed a new platform to make easy for cities to do that.