Hyundai planning driverless car by 2020

Self-driving cars wearing a Hyundai badge will hit the road inside three years, with the company confirming it will debut an autonomous driving system for highway usage by 2020. The announcement makes Hyundai the car brand with the most affordable range of products to have communicated its roll-out of technology that can drive without human input. However unlike some competitors it has placed caveats on its system. Hyundai Motor Company senior research engineer Byungyong You told Drive that the initial release of its system will be able to accelerate, brake, steer, change lanes and detect any obstacle automatically for an extended period of time, but on highways only. "We are aiming to do highway first and next we will expand it to the urban driving conditions," he said.