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Mercedes Benz and other car makers like Audi, already said we should expect to see self-driving cars in our streets as from 2030; even though search giant Google is optimistic that they could come as early as 2017. By the way, Daimler, Mercedes parent company, already shown off its self-driving 'Future'  trucks last year.

Chipmaker Nvidia unveiled the world's most powerful mobile chip the Tegra X1(Heard it offers one teraflop of processing power) at the on-going Internal Consumer Electronics Show and says it will let cars to drive themselves.

Researchers may have said that Google self-driving cars are not quite ready to take people down millions of American roads, but the search giant just announced that the first fully working prototype of its kaola-faced self-driving are ready to hit California roads in 2015. As you can see, this complete prototype is somewhat similar to the one Google showed off in May.

Last year, the UK government allowed the testing of autonomous or self-driving cars on public roads. But it did not announce the locations where these robotic cars would be tested. But on Wednesday, the names of the cities to host the testing of driveless cars was revealed by UK Chancellor George Osbone in his Autumn statement. The cities are: Bristol, Greewich, Coventry and Milton Keynes.

You have been hearing a lot of self-driving cars lately, but have you thought about flying cars? Yes, flying cars. Some of you thought that flying cars would never come, but dear, they are here already. Aeromobil, a company based in Slovakia, has released its flying car prototype Aeromobil 3.0 at the Pioneers festtival in Vienna. The flying car can take of at 90mph and travel 430 miles on a tank of gasoline, which makes it the fastest flying car around.Check out the Aeromobil 3.0 flying car in the video below

Mercedes-Benz has taken the wraps of its self-driving Future Truck 2025 concept at an International motor show in Germany. The truck ,which will be on the highways in 2025, won't need the man behind the wheel to handle the steering wheel all thanks to  highway pilot system of radar and camera technology. It also use autonomous vehicle-to-technology that Mercedes itself developed for passenger cars. See video of Mercedes-Benz Future Truck 2025 below.

Audi became the first automaker to get a special permit from the California Department of Motor Vehicles to test its self-driving cars on public roads in the state. Audi, including Google and other car makers, got their permits yesterday.  Yesterday marked the day that the State's new regulations governing the testing of robotic vehicles  come into effect--which include that a human driver must always be behind the wheel of an autonomous car in case something goes wrong. The permit now allows California to sit on the high table with Michigan, Nevada and Florida, which already accept the testing of these vehicles on public roads.

''We are not doing this for the sake of the technology. We are doing it because it is what customers around the world want.'' These were the words used by General Motors' CEO Mary Barra in her keynote speech at the Intelligent Transport System World Congress in Detroit, on Sunday. At the event, the female CEO revealed that the auto brand has plans to build a 2017 model of a self-driving Cadillac CTS Sedan, with vehicle-to-vehicle communication technology.

Google Self-Driving Car, model year 2014.

Google's self-driving cars are by now famous even though the Internet company is not selling any of the futuristic, koala-faced vehicles just yet. Experts say the robotic cars are not quite ready to take passengers down the millions of miles of American roads.

I went through my blog archive today and I pulled out this post. As you can see in the above image, this is a single passenger self-driving car from Hitachi. ROPITS as it called by the company was built for the aged in Japanese. Now before Google had plans of a two passenger car, Hitachi had already unveiled the ROPITS(Robots for personal Intelligent Transport System).

 In May, Google unveiled a two-seater self-driving prototype without manual controls: No steering wheel, pedals and brakes--but can be controlled with just the push of a button. The web giant revealed that it would build 100 or so of that model. The autonomous car doesn't require the input of a human driver because, according to Google, they will rely on its software and sensors to do all the work.

Technology juggernaut Google and other carmakers told us that their self-driving vehicles will be fully ready by 2017 or so. But, many of us are finding it hard to wait or think the year they have given us is  far too long. Yes, a US-based startup, Cruise, is all thinking the same way and thus, wants to bring autonomous cars on our roads as soon as possible by fitting hardware into our existing cars.

You must have seen them in James Bond's movies----cars flying a little bit over land in order to escape danger---and you can't just help but wonder when such cars will come to reality(we are not talking about self-driving or flying cars here) Your number one car maker, Toyota, thinks such cars should be on our roads to reduce friction.

How would you feel knowing you are sitting a car with no human driver, no steering wheel or brake pedal? I can imagine what's in your mind right now. You probably think I want you to commit a suicide with your eyes  wide open, right? But seriously, these are the vehicles Google is planning to build. The company unveiled a car that won't need a brake pedal, accelerator and steering wheel.

By September 16, 2014 manufacturers of autonomous vehicles will be able to test their self-driving cars on public roads in California, legally.  That's what the state's Department of Motor Vehicles noted in a new protocol. The requirements for a manufacturer conducting test for self-driving cars in California are :

Who can be more prophetic than Bank PHB? Bank PHB( Platinium Habib Bank) predicted that one day cars will drive themselves in one of its TV commercials eight years ago( even though it couldn't predict that one day Bank PHB will change to Keystone bank). Many of us back then, doubted PHB's vision of a self-driving car. The bank workforce believed that the prediction will come to pass. And I tell you, Bank PHB's prediction has surely come to pass. have started to master the navigation of city streets.

Bill Gross image

Recent findings from Idealab Founder and CEO Bill Gross, who confirmed his findings in a blog post said that Google's self-driving car gathers more than 750MB per second as it drives. Enabling the car to record everything it come across while driving.
Google self-driving cars has completed more than 300,000 million since; without any issue of accident.

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Due to the increasing number of aged people and those who have difficulty in walking in Japan, Hitachi, the nation conglomerate unveiled a single passenger robotic car that can drive itself without the driver doing a thing.

Truth be told, even as a tech-blogger, I never believed that one day cars will eventually drive themselves someday. I taught that if cars should drive themselves someday.., that will be the end of technology. But two years after, I was proven wrong. Cars do drive themselves.

Recently, the Oxford University unveiled a low cost self-driving car. Dubbed RobotCar, knows when to offer a helping to the driver when driving on routes it has already traveled using an iPad mounted on the dashboard.
Unlike Google self-driving cars that uses Global positioning system, GPS, to recognize their surroundings, The RobotCar uses laser and small cameras mounted on each sides of the car.
As at this moment, the system cost around 5000 British pound, but in future, they hope to reduce it to 500 British pounds.
The RobotCar is undergoing test drive in the UK.