The future movement of vehicles along Kentucky highways got a hearing in Frankfort during the now-completed General Assembly session. A House bill to establish a regulatory framework for autonomous vehicles got last-day approval in the State Senate. Senate committee members heard from James Higdon with the Autonomous Vehicle Industry Association. He said autonomous vehicles in California understand how pigeons in the road behave relative to those birds in Arizona who act in a different manner.
“I know that sounds like such a silly example, but I hope it does display the amount of technology, the amount of thoughtfulness that goes into every one of these before they are on the road.”
