A forward-looking sensor is seen mounted on a Delphi autonomous car before it departs Treasure Island for a cross-country trip from San Francisco to New York City in San Francisco, California March 22, 2015. REUTERS/Stephen Lam
The self-driving Audi turned smoothly onto El Camino Real, shifted into the middle lane and after a few stoplights found itself idling behind the distinctive plastic bubble of a Google autonomous car.
That sort of thing happens in Mountain View, the epicentre of autonomous driving tests. But whereas Google has not publicly outlined a path to commercialisation for its self-driving technology, the gear inside this particular Audi could hit the market in just a few years.
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