What the Largest Tech Confab of the Year Revealed About Self-Driving Cars

CES has wrapped up in Las Vegas, but not before event offered numerous experts a chance to prognosticate about the timeline for autonomous vehicles to arrive on the market.

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January 17, 2018, 7:00 AM PST

By James Brasuell @CasualBrasuell

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Amir Efrati provides a dispatch from CES in Las Vegas, where the "hype machine" from the auto industry turned it down a notch this year compared to previous years.

What live demonstrations of autonomous vehicle technology at CES made clear was that self-driving cars for urban streets won’t be available for sale to the public for at least several years. Even then, their capabilities will be limited.

Efrati rounds up a series of key observations to build a case to support that assertion, focusing on the surprises and obstacles on the road that still challenge self-driving cars, the technology companies dueling it out for market supremacy, and the shifting goal post in terms of expectations for autonomous vehicles in the near and mid-term future.

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