Ford is accelerating testing of its Fusion Hybrid Research Vehicle as the first automaker to test a fully autonomous vehicle at Mcity, the world’s first full-scale simulated urban environment at University of Michigan.
The latest report into the future of autonomous and self-driving cars from Juniper Research sets 2021 as the date when the technology, which until recently was confined to sci-fi thrillers and James Bond films, starts to become a real-world reality.
The research firm forecast this week that by 2025, some 20 million self-driving vehicles will be traversing the world's roads. That would be the equivalent of 28% of all the cars sold globally in 2014 (72 million according to JATO).
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