As we head into 2018, automotive and technology companies continue their race towards vehicle autonomy.
Daily headlines provide accelerated timelines when autonomous vehicles will be available in large numbers, communicating with one another via vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication. And yet, there are still over 260 million cars and trucks on the road in the U.S. with an average age of 11-plus years; vehicles last longer than ever before, and scrappage rates remain low.
Subsequently, when we look ahead for 2018, what happened in 2017 can provide a good gauge for what we can expect, but must be blended also with knowledge of how quickly our world is evolving through technologies such as robotics, artificial intelligence, telematics, and evolving automotive electronics, composites and metals.
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