Abstract-Increasing applications and decreasing sizes of autonomous vehicles is likely to result in a dense network of heterogeneous autonomous vehicles, each moving around to perform a separate task. Autonomous vehicles need to be aware of other vehicles in it's vicinity in order to successfully perform their tasks. Such network awareness is ensured by exchanging location and control information over wireless radio channels. However, wireless interference constraints limit the number of messages that can be exchanged between the vehicles. In this paper, we study the impact of such communication constraints on maximum speed in dense autonomous vehicular networks. We define hazard rate to be the fraction of times a vehicle enters a region, call it 'uncertainty region', where there is a positive chance of other vehicles being present. We show that such a performance measure follows a threshold behavior with respect to maximum speed v as the network density n increases to infinity. We show that, for a planar network, the hazard rate tends to 1, if the maximum speed v decreases slower than n −3/2 , and tends to 0, if v decreases faster than n −3/2 . For the network hazard rate, which is fraction of times any vehicle enters it's uncertainty region, the threshold is n −2 . For the spatial network, however, these thresholds turn out to be larger. This implies that it is better to plan autonomous vehicular networks, such as UAV networks, over a three dimensional space rather than a two dimensional one.