Driverless cars are coming to Virginia highways

If you're driving on the highway in Virginia, don't be surprised if you soon see a car in your rear-view mirror with no one behind the wheel.

Virginia announced Monday that it's opening up 70 miles of highway for self-driving car testing according to a report in the Richmond Times-Dispatch. The roads designated for testing will be known as the Virginia Automated Corridors and include some of the most congested stretches of highway in the U.S.

Virginia is the latest U.S. state to allow testing of self-driving cars on public roads after California, Nevada, Florida and Michigan, as well as Washington, D.C. Read more...