Forget Tesla: Experts say these 4 tech companies are the future of self-driving cars

We were promised self-driving cars before the end of the last decade, and those predictions are turning out to be wildly, hilariously wrong. But things may be catching up -- and the loser of the pack, according to Sam Abuelsamid of Guidehouse Insights, is Tesla, which may surprise droves of Elon-stans. The market research firm performed an analysis of the entire emerging autonomous driving industry, and the company wasn't just last in the just-released annual scorecard -- it was last by miles and miles. "Of course there is also the elephant in the room that is Tesla," Abuelsamid tells Inverse. "To be honest, I'm not sure they really belong in this group at all, but the company and CEO have been so insistent that they are developing'full self-driving' ... and they get most of the attention from media and financial markets that I felt they should be here just to demonstrate where they actually stand."