The calendar will soon turn to 2020, and you can be forgiven if you're wondering where your self-driving car is. A decade of hype and bold predictions is coming to a quiet end.
Automakers and tech companies have promised a transportation utopia, and invested billions to try to make it so. Tesla's Elon Musk talked of autonomous cross-country trips in 2017. GM promised self-driving rides would be available in 2019. Ford was more cautious with its choice of 2021. But now those deadlines are passing and humans are still behind the wheel.
"From science project to US highways Ten years ago, self-driving vehicles were little more than science projects, but the results from government-sponsored races impressed Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page. In 2009, they launched a self-driving project with 20 people, some used Toyota Prius vehicles and off-the-shelf sensors, according to a spokesman.These vehicles were primitive.
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