Survey on AI self-driving cars around the world What’s the future of personal transportation? Well, you’ll likely be spending a lot less time behind the wheel, for one. The rise of self-driving cars means that some scenes out of science-fiction flicks (movie: Total Recall or I, Robot ) are now reality—and even more will be available soon. What is self-drive car? Self-driving vehicles are cars or trucks in which human drivers are never required to take control to safely operate the vehicle. Also known as autonomous or “driverless” cars, they combine sensors and software to control, navigate, and drive the vehicle. An autonomous car is a vehicle that is capable of sensing its environment and navigating without human input. Autonomous cars combine a variety of techniques to perceive their surroundings, including radar, laser light, GPS, odometry, and computer vision. In August 1961, Popular Science reported on the Aeromobile 35B, an air-cushion vehicle (ACV) that was inven