Toyota: Autonomous Highway Driving By 2020

Check out what Toyota is doing with autonomous vehicle development. By contrast, Tesla is just weeks away from autonomous highway driving. Elon Musk expects Tesla to achieve full autonomy in 3 years but with regulatory delays the deployments will vary between jurisdictions. Looks like the 2017 Cadillac CT6 will be the second car to hit the market with autonomous highway driving capability. Recently Daimler tested an autonomous truck in real highway traffic. Future cars are going to be autonomous and electric. General Motors says their cost of batteries has fallen to $145/kwh. To put that in perspective, that's a drop from $1000 in 2008 and $485 in in 2013. These autonomous electric vehicles will be powered by solar energy. Now...

Source: FuturePundit - October 9, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Randall Parker Source Type: blogs