This article describes the potential need for an increase in taxes for City municipalities to maintain their budgets as a decrease in speeding and red-light tickets had the potential to become nonexistent due to autonomous vehicles.

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Driverless cars could bring many benefits to the streets like increased safety and reduced congestion.

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It is possible that with autonomous vehicles obeying the roads as technology drives them, they could practically eliminate the need to hand out speeding tickets and other road infraction tickets to drivers.

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Driverless vehicles may hold cost savings for cities as well.

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