Self Driving Cars Wrong Predictions And Hype - Does Anybody See A Problem Here?

Oct 16th, 2011 - GM: Self-Driving Vehicles Could be Ready by End of Decade

Jan 12th, 2012 - Let the Robot Drive: The Autonomous Car of the Future Is Here

Aug 16th, 2012 - Earlier this month KPMG and the Center for Automotive Research released a report not only predicting that we’ll eventually be driving – or, rather, not driving – autonomous cars, but that they’ll be in showrooms as early as 2019. Maybe even sooner.

Sep 25th, 2012 - Sergey Brin is promising Google's self-driving cars will be available for everyone within five years

Dec 12th, 2012 - Volvo plans self-driving cars in 2014, envisions accident-free fleet by 2020

Jan 14th, 2013 - Driverless Cars Coming To Showrooms By 2020, Says Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn

Aug 27th, 2013 - Andy Palmer, the Executive Vice President of California-based Nissan Motors Ltd., has announced that Nissan will make fully autonomous vehicles available to the consumer by 2020. These cars will be able to drive in urban traffic.

Oct 27th, 2014 - Next generation Audi A8 capable of fully autonomous driving in 2017

Feb 5th, 2015 - Ford CEO Mark Fields - Ford Expects Fully Autonomous Cars In 5 Years

Mar 25th, 2015 - General Motors president Dan Ammann said he would be surprised if his company wasn’t shipping self-driving cars by 2020.

Sep 13th, 2015 - Self-driving cars: from 2020 you will become a permanent backseat driver

Sept 21st, 2015 - Apple has set a shipping date of 2019 for its own electric vehicle, though the WSJ reported that the first version of the car might not be driverless.

Sept 23rd, 2015 - Elon Musk expects first fully autonomous Tesla by 2018, approved by 2021 - min 8.06 to 8.29 in the video - In an interview by Danish newspaper Borsen, Tesla’s founder Elon Musk accelerates his timeline for the introduction of fully autonomous Teslas by 2 years (!) compared to his estimate less than a year ago (October 2014)

Oct 8th, 2015 - First autonomous Toyota to be available in 2020

Jan 29th, 2016 - Andrew Ng, Baidu’s Chief Scientist expects a large number of self-driving cars on the road by 2019

Feb 27th, 2016 - Raj Nair, Ford’s head of product development: autonomous vehicle on the market by 2020

Apr 5th, 2016 - 26-year-old hacker’s George Hotz startup, Comma.ai, plans to start selling autonomous conversion kits for Honda and Acura vehicles this year.

Apr 23rd, 2016 - 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.

May 10th, 2016 - General Motor’s head of foresight and trends Richard Holman said at a conference in Detroit that most industry participants now think that self-driving cars will be on the road by 2020 or sooner.

May 24th, 2016 - NuTonomy to provide self-driving taxi services in Singapore by 2018, expand to 10 cities around the world by 2020

Aug 23rd, 2016 - Delphi and MobilEye to provide an off-the-shelf self-driving system by 2019

Jan 5th, 2017 - Scott Keogh, Head of Audi America announced at the CES 2017 that an Audi that really would drive itself would be available by 2020.

Nov 7th, 2017 - Alphabet Launches the First Taxi Service With No Human Drivers