The auto industry is working feverishly on fully automated vehicles. However, the technology is far from flawless, as its manufacturers admit.
Autonomous cars cannot get by without human help. This emerges from the mandatory error reports of the vehicle manufacturers to the California motor vehicle authority DMV. Accordingly, prototyping tests by companies on public roads had to intervene almost 2014 times since November 2.900. In the majority of cases, the autonomous car asked the driver to take over the steering wheel, in the other cases the driver intervened on his own initiative.
A total of seven companies are required to report to the authority on a regular basis. In addition to the car manufacturers Mercedes, Nissan, Tesla and VW, this also includes the suppliers Bosch and Delphi and the Internet company Google. The IT company is working on particularly ambitious autonomous cars; in the future they will be on the move without a steering wheel or pedals.
