When will the fully-autonomous vehicle revolution begin? The most recent predictions from each manufacturer. (Sorted by earliest commercially available product)
2017 | Nvidia CEO & Founder: “Every car company in the world will have to invest in autonomous driving or they will become the Nokia of phones.” (October 2015) Source
2018 | Tesla: Elon Musk: We’ll See Fully Automated Tesla Cars by 2018 (September 2015) Source
2020 | Google Plans to Eliminate Human Driving in 5 Years (May 2015) Source
2020 | Mitsubishi Electric Introduces EMIRAI3 xAUTO Automated Driving Concept Car (October 2015) Source
2020 | Nissan Reaffirms Autonomous Car (Looking Like LEAF/Juke Mashup) Release Date in 2020 (October 2015) Source | See it
2020 | Toyota/Lexus aims to launch self-driving car by 2020 (October 2015) Source
2020 | Uber CEO To Tesla: Sell Me Half A Million Autonomous Electric Cars In 2020 (July 2015) Source
2020 | Volvo sees crash-free car by 2020 (July 2013) Source
2020 | Ford CEO MARK FIELDS PREDICTS: “Fully autonomous vehicles are a real possibility.” “Probably, in the next five years, you’ll see somebody introduce autonomous vehicles.” (January 2015) Source
2025 | Boston Consulting Group: The market for driverless car will be worth £27 billion ($42 billion) by 2025 (September 2015) Source
2025 | BCG Vehicles capable of urban autopilot could be ready in 2022, paving the way for fully autonomous vehicles by 2025 (April 2015) Source
2025 | General Motors officials said they forecast that most new cars will have automated functions and vehicle-to-vehicle communication technology by 2025 (September 2014) Source
2025 | IHS: Sales of driverless cars begin in 2025, by 2050 almost all vehicles will be autonomous (January 2014) Source
2025 | Mercedes-Benz Future Truck 2025
HARD TO SAY | Jaguar Land Rover R&D Chief: “We don’t consider customers cargo. We don’t want to build a robot that delivers the cargo from A to B.” June 2015 Source