I would vote, that the self-driving car revolution started more than 20 years back, when Mercedes, Bosch and others already worked on the self-driving cars. The

I would vote, that the self-driving car revolution started more than 20 years back, when Mercedes, Bosch and others already worked on the self-driving cars. The times when there where no such thing as GPS available to the general public. All the assistants we have these days in cars like, auto distance control, drive lane assistant, obstacle detection, stop-and-go assistant and so on evolved from those prototypes. At that time a made an internship at the military arm and a fellow had an internship with the self-driving car. BTW, the most current Mercedes S-Class can do self-driving for about 80% of the time. They intentionally disabled it and even put in logic to detect if the driver is holding the steering wheel or not. If the driver is not holding it for some time, the assistants are disabled by intention. Also what I do not understand, why Cruise is attaching everything mechanically? Any descend car these days with lane keeping assistant/self-parking assistant has all the parts available. You just have to connect to CAN and control the whole car. Of course, you have to talk with the OEMs. But that is how the companies are work, which convert cars for use for people with disabilities.