It's been a mixed year for the advancement of autonomous driving. In March, a test Uber hit and killed a jaywalker. Each car has a safety driver behind the wheel, but the dashboard cam revealed that they were watching reality TV on their phone and, without the ready reflexes to take over the wheel, the fatal crash prompted Uber to halt its autonomous vehicle operations in Tempe, as well as in Pittsburgh, San Francisco, and Toronto. Surveys of the public prove that getting people to ride in autonomous cars will hold some resistance — in an April AAA survey of over 1000 US residents, 63 percent reported that they would feel less safe sharing the road with a self-driving vehicle than while walking or riding a bicycle.
But, those invested are getting ready for their arrival. In March of this year, Waymo announced that they’d purchased 20,000 sporty, electric self-driving vehicles from Jaguar for the company’s forthcoming ride-hailing service. They estimate that the Jaguar fleet alone will be capable of doing a million trips each day in 2020. These are numbers that, if accurate, will change US driving as we know it and substantially disrupt not only ride-sharing but the practice of humans driving cars. There's been a range of predictions as to when we'll see driverless cars ready to take the highways and city streets. While ride-hailing services are predicting March 14, 2020, BDO recently carried out an analysis of the predictions and found that driverless cars will arrive in early 2021. This date comes from researching car companies, auto industry suppliers, ride-hailing services, and other experts.
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