How Close are we to a 'Self Driving Vehicle'.

There are many tech giants in the race for developing autonomous vehicles. Common names include Tesla, Google and most of the automobile companies.

Tesla does have some capabilities of a ‘self-driving car’ in their current models such as being able to steer, change lanes and park by itself. But the company says that it is still in a beta mode and much work is incomplete.

As of now, we haven’t yet developed a fully functional prototype that is able to drive completely on its own. But we will be reaching there soon.

Both Google and Tesla have declared their fully functional self-driving cars will be available to the public by 2020.

Ford, Volkswagen, GM, BMW, Audi and many other companies have announced tentative dates ranging from 2019 to 2021 for their self-driving cars to be available to the public.

Honda is also getting into the race of Autonomous Vehicles. Honda invested $2.75 million to G.M autonomous vehicles for the subsidiary of Autonomous vehicles.

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