Driverless cars, ready to be launched in five years

Most of the services conducted by the Lyft transport company will be made in approximately five years by driverless cars, as this will became a cheaper way of traveling, cheaper than owning your own car, says John Zimmer, president of the company, according to the BBC news site.

Zimmer wrote on his blog that: "We see car ownership as a burden that is costing the average American $9,000 every year. The car has actually become more like a $9,000 ball and chain that gets dragged through our daily life. Owning a car means monthly car payments, searching for parking, buying fuel, and dealing with repairs."

Lyft is a transportation company that facilitates by using a mobile app the modern movement of the ridesharing system. In January, Lyft has concluded an agreement with the American company General Motors (GM) to develop a fleet of driverless cars that were tested in San Francisco and Phoenix.

BMW has also promised to have an entirely autonomous vehicle on the road by 2021. The German automaker is working with Intel and Mobileye to develop the technology, which will be used in its forthcoming flagship model, iNext.

Ford’s chief executive, Mark Fields, sounded impressed—perhaps even a little shocked—at how rapidly advances in self-driving technology are occurring as he announced his company’s news yesterday. “If someone had told you 10 years ago, or even five years ago, that the CEO of a major automaker American Car Company is going to be announcing the mass production of fully autonomous vehicles, they would have been called crazy or nuts or both,” he said during a news conference at Ford’s research center in Palo Alto.