Still in its infancy, the automotive industry has ways to go before even coming close to perfecting autonomous vehicles. The incorporation of driverless vehicles into mainstream society affecting every facet of life (from daily routines to traffic flow or morning commutes in urban communities) seems inevitable at this point. Granted there are a good amount of people who have remained highly apprehensive about how vehicular autonomy will function in everyday society (especially in the beginning when driver-occupied vehicles will remain dominant on roads), these reservations are being largely viewed as challenges by the automotive industry to overcome so they can gain the trust of as many public consumers as possible.
As we all know, some of the biggest hurdles mainstream vehicular autonomy must overcome in the coming years involves vehicle-to-vehicle communication, perfecting sensory equipment in driverless cars to trigger real-time reactions, and working out some of the disengagement-causing kinks that are presently dissuading many people from trusting this brand of technology. With a clear path that provides plenty of room for growth, the infographic below breaks down the different facets of automotive autonomy such as what the future could hold for this industry, along with the different levels of automation that this technology features.
