Self Driving Cars ... No More a Fiction.

Over the years, we have been listening about Self Driving or Autonomous Driving Cars. It was always exciting to watch self driving cars in James Bond's movies. Most of us had specially been in love with Knight Rider

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So what exactly these self driving cars are?

"An autonomous or self driving car is a vehicle that is capable of sensing its environment and navigating without human input." ... Wikipedia.

There are six levels of autonomous driving, described by SAE International

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Many companies have been working to make self driving cars a reality. BMW and Mercedes-Benz are two giants among them.

Another giant company is Chinese multinational tech company Baidu Inc., which has started mass production of its self driving level 4 buses, Apolong.

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Apolong is a 14 seaters bus which runs on electric battery power. It'll be running on different Chinese cities' roads in a few months.

German company Daimler has also obtained road test license for level 4 Mercedes-Benz Self driving car.

The time is not far, when we'll see driverless cars all around the world.