“By 2017, vehicles from Cadillac and others will offer hands-off self-driving options for highway cruising. What this means is that we are very close to offering cars that operate without driver input for extended periods of time. The sensors are there. The communication protocols are developed. It’s safe to say that within five years, most large manufacturers will offer some sort of driverless operation,” says Tucker Marion Professor of Technological Entrepreneurship at Northeastern University.

The Huffington Post