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The timeline for autonomous cars hitting the road en masse keeps getting closer. GM's Cadillac division expects to produce partially autonomous cars at a large scale by 2015, and the automaker also predicts it will have fully autonomous cars available by the end of the decade. Audi and BMW have also shown self-driving car concepts, with the former working with Stanford to pilot a modified TT up Pikes Peak.
But while we know that robo-cars are coming, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) recently released predictions that autonomous cars will account for up to 75 percent of vehicles on the road by the year 2040. The organization went even further, forecasting how infrastructure, society and attitudes could change when self-driving cars become the norm around the middle of the century.
Originally posted by DarthMuerte
I would not use or trust an automobile that I cannot control.
Originally posted by littled16
I don't need a car that drives itself. What I need is a car that pumps it's own gas or changes it's own flat tire when it's raining cats and dogs. Also, if it changed it's own oil it would be nice.