the environment adaptive electric vehicle is capable of operating in a number of operating environments such as on a conventional highway , or on an elevated mainstream transportation infrastructure and also on a variety of local , low velocity , low volume , automated and semi - automated transportation infrastructures that may serve as collector roads for vehicles to access the mainstream elevated integrated bimodal infrastructures . the eaev has a variety of sensors , receivers , cameras , monitoring devices , magnetic readers , gps built into the vehicle . in a typical vehicle all of this information would be interpreted and applied in the same way . in the eaev the vehicle wants to know what environment it is in . it then uses the software that defines that environment for all of its decisions . as a result , the eaev uses the same equipment and similar information that is received over the equipment but applies it differently depending on what kind of system the vehicle is travelling on .