freeways

US freeways have to accommodate a much smaller range of speeds and still fail because it's so badly organized.

Add on to this difference that freeways were seen as a sign of the future even in Europe to the point where e.g.

A virtuous cycle, depending how much you like concrete, sprawl and freeways.

We can only build so many freeways, schools, and hospitals at once.

I assume it would be easier to construct overhead tracks adjacent or over the freeways.

Bike around Copenhagen or sit in jams on the LA freeways?

It's also worth mentioning that substantially all of those autonomous miles were on freeways, which also happen to be the safest roads for human drivers.

Power lines are about as unpopular as new freeways, and there is a risk of court cases dragging on for years, stalling the energy transition program.

It would be a matter of a little bit of paint to extend the existing carpool hours on car-choked freeways, or to establish new carpool lanes.

You can still ride horses on public streets in most places (probably not freeways I imagine), but most people of course don't.

During passing it's easy to push above 80 mph (the quoted rated speed for these tires) and for many freeways 80-85 is just the flow of traffic.

I have road rage insanity moments out there on the so cal freeways.

Well, let's just have these guys arrested for marauding around the freeways with a "loaded gun" and we'll let the Russian hackers figure out the Cherokee's vulnerabilities.

Since the start of our programme six years ago, we've driven nearly a million miles autonomously, on both freeways and city streets, without causing a single accident," said a spokesperson.

Europe was different in this respect mostly because Europe already had the road networks, and population density along them, that means building freeways have been largely about upgrading/replacing existing "working" road connections that were already integrated into the urban fabric, sometimes through centuries, or even dating back to Roman times, and much less about creating entirely new road connections.