Robot Convoy

Driverless road trains are in develoopment

Here's a great story from the BBC - robotic truck convoys.

I love the idea of these driverless road train chugging through the night.  Kinda spooky - what if they develop a mind of their own? (Images of 'Christine' come to mind.)

Google Car is an active project and we know what

Drone convoy

those guys can do when they put their collective minds to something.

BMW has already forecast that vehicles will be "highly automated" by 2015 and driverless by 2020.  That's food for thought.

Many of the world's big auto manufacturers are spending large on this holy grail of vehicle technology.  There will potentially be big wins for the people who get it right and can license the technology to the world.
Nissan, Lexus, Audi are all in the mix, as are Oxford University.

Exciting times indeed but let's hope that they do a lot of testing before they deploy these.  Question is, what are all the people going to do who insist on driving to break the monotony of travel?

BMW forecast driverless cars by 2020 

Driverless cars by 2015 possible (Stuff)

Has the time come for the driverless car? (Washington Post)

Google's trillion dollar car (Forbes)