Let's take a look at some of those realistic timelines. A quick googling gave me a very helpful listicle by VentureBeat from 2017, titled Self-driving car timel

Let's take a look at some of those realistic timelines. A quick googling gave me a very helpful listicle by VentureBeat from 2017, titled Self-driving car timeline for 11 top automakers. [1] Some examples: Ford - Level 4 vehicle in 2021, no gas pedal, no steering wheel, and the passenger will never need to take control of the vehicle in a predefined area. Honda - production vehicles with automated driving capabilities on highways sometime around 2020 Toyta - Self-driving on the highway by 2020 Renault-Nissan - 2020 for the autonomous car in urban conditions, probably 2025 for the driverless car Volvo - It’s our ambition to have a car that can drive fully autonomously on the highway by 2021. Hyundai - We are targeting for the highway in 2020 and urban driving in 2030. Daimler - large-scale commercial production to take off between 2020 and 2025 BMW - highly and fully automated driving into series production by 2021 Tesla - End of 2017 It certainly wasn't just Tesla who was promising self-driving cars any second now. Tesla was definitely the most agressive, but failed to meet its goals just like every other manufacturer. -- [1] https://venturebeat.com/2017/06/04/self-driving-car-timeline-for-11-top-automakers/ https://venturebeat.com/2017/06/04/self-driving-car-timeline...