In 2014, California joined Nevada in issuing permits for self-driving vehicles—a big
step, to be sure, but automated cars like Google’s and Volvo’s remain novelties for
the time being. So when can we expect robot carriages for the masses to begin
hitting the roadways? Davide Santo, the head of Freescale’s Advanced Driver
Assistance Systems microcontroller business, says mainstream, semiautonomous
vehicles should arrive around 2017. Over the next decade, we’ll begin
sharing the road with fully automated cars, trucks, and buses. And eventually,
Santo believes, the self-driving versions will likely crowd out driver-operated
vehicles in all but a few designated areas, to the point that human-controlled
driving goes the way of the horse-drawn buggy.
expecting wow..lets see..
