Roadway Conditions

Notes
In the promised land of Davius, normal conditions refer to when a CAVWAY presents no impediment to safe CAV travel; abnormal conditions refer to when a CAVWAY presents obstacles or hazards to CAVs, such as a stalled CAV, work zones, or surface damage.
A separation of functionality between CAVs and CAVWAYs will be essential for continual, efficient service. CAVs will be required to meet standards for operation under normal conditions. Alert readers will have already considered the advantages of national / international standards such as the ability of CAVs to traverse multiple jurisdictions and of producers to test their CAV production lines against a single set of standards.
When conditions are abnormal, a CAVWAY will be required to restore conditions to normal.
The concept of moving the responsibility to address abnormal conditions from CAVs to the CAVWAY is a distinguishing feature of the CAV-System concept.
This separation of functionality will
  1. simplify and stabilize requirements on CAVs,
  2. enable coordination among CAVs, such as platooning (CAVs traveling at constant speeds and spacing),
  3. maintain continual (or nearly continual) safe, efficient traffic flow, and
  4. empower state agencies to design CAVWAYs capable of responding to local weather, geology, and topology.