> Needless to say, the program didn’t deliver driverless cars and automated highways to Americans. So what was the problem? The legislation didn’t really give t

> Needless to say, the program didn’t deliver driverless cars and automated highways to Americans. So what was the problem? The legislation didn’t really give the Department of Transportation any direction on how they should go about the research—only that they needed to demonstrate it by 1997. But perhaps the biggest problem was that the legislation never clearly defined what was meant by “fully automated highway system.” Look a lot more like the problem was that there just wasn't any follow through. Prototypes were made, tests were done, proofs of concept made, but $650M is not enough to overhaul an entire nation's infrastructure, and one shortish strip of highway isn't enough to convince people to go out and buy whole new cars.