2025 is the year of self-propelled cars

Self-propelled cars will travel across the street in 2025, and by 2030 humans will not need to manually control the steering wheel.

This is the prediction of IHC Automotive, after releasing a report titled 'Emerging Technologies: Autonomous Vehicles'. Accordingly, the group estimates that sales of self-propelled vehicles will increase from 230,000 units by 2025 to 11.8 million units by 2035.

Of these, 7 million will be semi-self-propelled, and 4.8 million will be fully automated. By the year 2050, IHC thinks that almost all cars on the street are self-steering. Compared to current models, the price of self-propelled cars will increase from $ 7,000 to $ 10,000 per 2025 vehicle, which will fall to $ 5,000 per 2030 and $ 3,000 by 2035.

The report also predicts that the application of the legal framework for self-propelled vehicles is a major barrier to their dissemination, partly due to safety concerns. However, representatives of IHC Automotive are confident that the rate of traffic accidents will diminish sharply once people give drivers control of the machines.