The director of Caltrans said the state’s highway management system has already begun modifying roadways to accommodate the way self-driving cars navigate.

“The automated vehicles (AVs) can follow lane lines,” Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty told KPCC Southern California Public Radio.

“They can’t follow the Botts’ Dots, so we’re actually changing our delineation standards to go away from the Botts’ Dots which we’ve been using for decades because AVs have a difficult time following…