Autonomous Vehicles Are Coming to a Street Near You

The promise of cars that drive themselves has been just over the horizon for years now -- one of those breakthroughs that’s always coming yet seemingly never arrives. That’s changing, though, and rapidly.

Fully autonomous taxis are already on the streets of Phoenix and San Francisco, and they’re coming to Los Angeles next. And over a quarter of a million Teslas currently on the road are equipped with the company’s Full Self-Driving add-on (which, despite the name, is a driver-assistance feature, not full autonomy). Self-driving cars are already here -- they’re just not very evenly distributed.