This municipal action guide is meant to give cities the ability to better understand and approach the impending roll out of autonomous vehicles in their cities. We hope to lay out the current typologies of how cities and other levels of government are working together with the private sector to begin to integrate self-driving cars onto the roadways.

Key findings

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Arlington, Texas city government is the first city to take the AV testing into their own hands. They had a vision of letting the public become familiar with the possibility of AVs and took charge of a pilot passenger van.

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The inaction of the federal government will continue to allow other private players to grow their AV testing base.

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It is recommended that cities figure out their own goals and begin talking with private companies about potential alliances.

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