Rodney Brooks has said for years that adoption of autonomous vehicles will require changes to road infrastructure.

True: Brooks's own published writings or talks from earlier years (before 14 August 2020, and spanning at least about two years) state that adopting autonomous vehicles will require changes to road infrastructure. Mostly true: such statements exist but cover a shorter period, or are made more weakly (infrastructure changes are 'likely' rather than 'required'). Mixed: there is only a single earlier statement, or the statements are ambiguous. Mostly false: his earlier writings touch on infrastructure only in passing, without making this point. False: his earlier writings on autonomous vehicles show he did not hold this view, or held the opposite view.

Set before the research began.

1. E1 Edge Cases For Self Driving Cars rodneybrooks.com (Rodney Brooks blog) · 17 June 2017 Own record

   “Autonomous cars are likely to require lots of infrastructure changes that we are just not quite ready for yet.”

2. E2 Edge Cases For Self Driving Cars rodneybrooks.com (Rodney Brooks blog) · 17 June 2017 Own record

   “But maybe not. I may have one more essay on how driverless cars are going to cause major infrastructure changes in our cities, just as the original driverful cars did.”

3. E3 The Rodney Brooks Rules for Predicting a Technology’s Commercial Success IEEE Spectrum · 25 October 2018 Own record

   “Driverless cars will not simply replace cars that have human drivers. Instead, we'll install special lanes, even geofencing the self-driving cars into lanes or entire roads, of their own, to protect them from human-driven cars and vice versa.”

Brooks's June 2017 blog post says autonomous cars are "likely to require lots of infrastructure changes" and that driverless cars are "going to cause major infrastructure changes in our cities" (E1, E2). His October 2018 IEEE Spectrum article says special lanes and geofenced roads will be installed for driverless cars (E3). These earlier statements support the claim. However, the evidence covers only about 16 months, short of the roughly two years the criteria require for true, and the 2017 wording says "likely" rather than "required". That fits mostly true.