I sort of intend a more general sense of “legible” here: something like the sense used in Seeing like a State. But, in general, I think the sorts of in-road th

I sort of intend a more general sense of “legible” here: something like the sense used in Seeing like a State. But, in general, I think the sorts of in-road things you’re suggesting are really valuable: “upgrading” our roads this way should pay dividends in terms of the amount of capital it takes to get a new self-driving-car system off the ground: embedding such tech into the roads seems like a public good that would benefit anyone trying to make a public car by lowering the R&D cost and centralizing some of the intelligence necessary for such a system.