“Intelligent roads are in use, primarily for long-distance travel. Once your car's computer guidance system locks onto the control sensors on one of these highways, you can sit back and relax.”

Ray KurzweilThought Leader

Inventor and futurist, author of The Age of Spiritual Machines

No instrumented 'intelligent highways' with embedded control sensors were deployed by 2009; automated highway system programs had been wound down in the late 1990s, and the self-driving progress that did follow came from onboard sensing and GPS rather than smart roads.