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Resident urges O'Fallon to prepare streets for autonomous vehicles, cites speed-sign detection problems
Summary
A Ward 7 resident told the council that vehicle sensors and heads-up displays are misreading posted speed signs and urged the city to review sign placement and visibility to prepare for autonomous vehicles; other residents urged improved striping and lighting.
David Dale, a Ward 7 resident, told the O'Fallon City Council on Aug. 18 that the city should begin preparing its streets for autonomous vehicles because onboard sensors are not reliably reading posted speed signs.
"I went around the town this morning driving. I took some shots of my own car, the heads up display showing the speed signs where the speed displayed in my car is not the speed limit on that road," Dale said. He described examples where the vehicle's sign-reading sensor displayed an incorrect speed when moving from one street to another and…
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