---
title: "Drive Wire for September 20th, 2016: Tech Bigwigs Want to Restrict Seattle-to-Vancouver Highway to Self-Driving Vehicles"
description: "New proposal seeks to ban human drivers from Interstate 5 most of the time."
date: "2016-09-20"
modified: "2016-09-20"
authors:
  - name: "The Drive Staff"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/the-drive-staff"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/article/5260/drive-wire-for-september-20th-2016-tech-bigwigs-want-to-restrict-seattle-to-vancouver-highway-to-self-driving-vehicles"
categories:
  - "Car Tech"
  - "News"
  - "Self-Driving Tech"
tags:
  - "Seattle"
  - "self-driving cars"
---

# Drive Wire for September 20th, 2016: Tech Bigwigs Want to Restrict Seattle-to-Vancouver Highway to Self-Driving Vehicles

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Today on Drive Wire, *The Drive* discusses a new report that seeks to turn [150 miles of highway between Seattle and Vancouver into a road exclusively for autonomous vehicles](<https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-19/seattle-tech-vets-to-propose-driverless-stretch-of-interstate-5>). Under the terms of the proposal, put forward by [a venture capital group helmed by tech industry veterans](<https://www.madrona.com/about/>), Interstate 5 would slowly be converted from a conventional freeway into a road where only self-driving cars, buses, and trucks would be allowed to use it most of the time. But how long would all this take? Check out the video above to find out.

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