Self-driving cars will stay in the slow lane, drivers say

A group of self driving Uber vehicles position themselves to take journalists on rides during a media preview at Uber's Advanced Technologies Center in Pittsburgh (Photo: Gene J. Puskar, AP) SAN FRANCISCO -- Automakers and tech companies insist: Self-driving cars will pull up in five years. But the self-driving revolution may be stuck in the slow lane for some time, according to a Kelley Blue Book poll out Wednesday. Some 62% of those surveyed in by the auto-valuation outfit "don't think all vehicles will be fully autonomous in my lifetime." More surprisingly, a third of Gen Z respondents (ages 12 to 15) agree, which means we will still be driving ourselves towards the end of this century. That's a far cry from 2021, the self-driving car arrival date recently put forth by Google, Ford, Uber and others.