Renault-Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn said in an interview that he believes that fully-autonomous driving will be the norm for consumer vehicles within three to four years. A number of carmakers, Nissan included, are currently in various stages of testing autonomous driving cars and technologies.
The drive towards autonomous vehicles has resonated with various sectors, including the City of Stratford, Ontario, which aside from offering widescale municipal Wi-Fi. Stratford has had citywide Wi-Fi since 2010, an initiative that involved installing 400 antennas on hydro poles throughout the municipality which is making itself a viable test site for autonomous vehicles testing.
Nissan's Ghosn believes thee to four years is a viable time frame, "by 2020 we’ll have fully autonomous driving cars. Highways, cities, traffic- all of it," he said in an interview with Engadget. Ghosn said this would be for autonomous driving in all conditions and not just in dedicated lanes. The big hurdle for this is regulation from variojs sectors of business and government, but if everyone is as bullish about this as carmakers, it should be something worth waiting for.
Source: Engadget via Phandroid