Will autonomous vehicles always be a pipedream?
Five years ago, almost every manufacturer was making presentations about autonomous vehicles and how they would be on the road by 2020.
Even the sober Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) forecast UK production of more than 100,000 Level 3 semi-autonomous cars by 2020, and thought fully autonomous Level 4/Level 5 cars would be in UK production by 2025 (see chart below).