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Startup Building “Air Traffic Control” to Help Self-Driving Cars Get Through Chick-fil-A

Joe Wilkins

created: Dec. 6, 2025, 4:15 p.m. | updated: Dec. 16, 2025, 4:21 p.m.

Let’s face it: American roads aren’t friendly places for pedestrians. As it turns out, American roads aren’t too friendly to self-driving cars, either. At least not yet, according to Ben Seidl, CEO and co-founder of Autolane, a startup working on “air traffic control” for autonomous vehicles. Basically, Autolane is building infrastructure to help autonomous vehicles know exactly where to go for pick-up and drop-off. The founder’s vision points to an interesting dilemma: on roads designed for humans in cars at the expense of humans without cars, how prepared are we for cars without humans?

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