NVIDIA to introduce level-4 enabling system by 2018 At the Bosch Connected World 2017 in Berlin NVIDIA’s CEO Jen-Hsun Huang announced that NVIDIA will provide technology enabling Level-4 autonomous driving capabilities by the end of 2018. (Source: NVIDIA, 2017-03-16)
Audi to introduce a self-driving car by 2020 Scott Keogh, Head of Audi America announced at the CES 2017 that an Audio that really would drive itself would be available by 2020. (Source: IEEE Spectrum, 2017-01-05)
NuTonomy to provide self-driving taxi services in Singapore by 2018, expand to 10 cities around the world by 2020
The company has just started trials of its self-driving taxis in Singapore’s 1 North District. It plans to deploy self-driving taxis commercially in Singapore by 2018 and aims to be operational with fleets of self-driving taxis in 10 cities of the world by 2020. (Source: Yahoo News, 2016-08-29, Digital Trends, 2016-05-24)
Delphi and MobilEye to provide off-the-shelf self-driving system by 2019 Both companies have announced that they will bring a fully self-driving (SAE level 4) system on the market for use in a variety of cars in 2019. Source: TheVerge, 2016-08-23
Ford CEO announces fully autonomous vehicles for mobility services by 2021 Mark Fields, Ford’s CEO announced that the company plans to offer fully self-driving vehicles by 2021. The vehicles, which will come without steering wheel and pedals, will be targeted to fleets which provide autonomous mobility services. Fields expects that it will take several years longer until Ford will sell autonomous vehicles to the public. Source: Reuters, 2016-08-16
Volkswagen expects first self driving cars on the market by 2019 Johann Jungwirth, Volkswagen’s appointed head of Digitalization Strategy, expects the first self-driving cars to appear on the market by 2019. He did not claim that these would be Volkswagen models. Source: Focus, 2016-04-23
GM: Autononomous cars could be deployed by 2020 or sooner General Motor’s head of foresight and trends Richard Holman said at a confererence in Detroit that most industry participants now think that self-driving cars will be on the road by 2020 or sooner. Source: Wall Street Journal, 2016-05-10
BMW to launch autonomous iNext in 2021 At their annual shareholder meeting, BMW CEO Harald Krueger said that BMW will launch a self-driving electric vehicle, the BMW iNext, in 2021. Source: Elektrek, 2016-05-12