DARPA has run autonomous vehicle competitions back to 2004 called the Grand Challenge and the contestants, including Stanford Racing Team (sponsored by Volkswagen), have done some amazing things in the field. While difficult to envision in the near future, hard work by DARPA’s contestants to move this field forward will spill into our everyday commute, and improve the fate of the car manufacturers and suppliers that jump on incorporating these kinds of technologies. Crazy? iRobot’s Roomba found success in using robotic technologies to vac and mop our floors.
dude, Mercedes Benz have had that shit since the 90s, they had a car back in 1995, I think, it had been running since the 80’s, and in 95 or so, it drove from one country, through a couple others on the autobahn getting up to 175KPH and even overtaking other cars.