When Autonomous Cars Will Be On the Road

Researches point out that traditional cars are most likely to be replaced by better and safer alternatives, the autonomous cars. These highly expected cars are the intelligent species capable of sensing their environment and navigating without human input and involvement. They make use of cutting edge technology such as lidar, radar, GPS and computer vision to sense their surroundings. Advanced control systems makes it possible to interpret the acquired sensor data to detect obstacles and to identify an appropriate navigation path.

These cars will change the traditional transportation system in the near future. Fewer traffic collisions, increased roadway capacity, higher speed limits, alleviation of parking scarcity, reduced car theft, smoother and more comfortable ride are the potential advantages of these vehicles.

But the real question is: when these cars will be on the road? Well, the answer is that they are closer than you think. "In the next five years, you'll see somebody introduce autonomous cars" these were the exact words of Ford CEO Mark Fields to the press at CES. If this manufacturer giant claims to make this technology a reality as so close as in five years time, you will be surprised to know that the reputed car company Toyota claims that their species have been up and running this year. It is good to say that these vehicles are not a myth anymore.

BMW, Mercedes-Benz state that their vehicles will be up and running before 2020. Google started road testing prototypes back in 2012. Stefan Moser, Head of Product and Technology Communications at Audi recently stated that the next generation Audi A8 will be fully autonomous and it is likely to be out for sale by 2017.

Most of the predictions from all major innovation giants comes to a common conclusion that these advanced vehicles will be out in the roads near 2020. Good enough to instil hopes in us that we could drive one of those cars in the near future.

So, when these cars will be on the road, anyone can boldly state that there will be a time in our immediate future where human driven vehicles will most likely deemed to be unsafe and they will get uncontrolled causing accidents or collisions. Even there might be a time where these primitive vehicles are going to be outlawed as their next evolution can be simply the better alternative and there would be no room for human errors anymore. But one thing is for sure, that this new evolving technology is near and is going to be a huge step to the evolution of driving.

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