This is a big part of why I think now is a good time to be updating road standards. There's a playbook for retrofitting safety measures on dangerous roads for human drivers, but today we count on OEMs to issue software updates. As the field plays around with different models of manufacture, softwares provider, and fleet management, we need to give state and local authorities tools to fix (and hopefully avoid) problems.

Also, designing roads to be easier to map and use for revenue rides will make it eaiser for cities to negociate usage fees and implement tolling with connected vehicle systems. I dont think we are looking at the last call for a gas tax holiday. Fairly soon, i think we will need roads designed to facilitate safe robotaxi service, transit, and micromobility to have any safe travel in moderate density areas.