Self-driving cars: What are the different levels of automation?

Automated driving is creeping into more and more models of cars and local public transport. — Philip Toscano/PA Wire/dpa

Read the newspaper, play games on your phone, and read to your children – all while sitting at the wheel.

The dream of self-driving cars is gradually getting closer, and accident researchers all over the world agree that widespread use of fully automated self-driving cars is likely to bring down the number of accidents and deaths on roads.