For some people, cars are a status symbol. In any case, there is a litany of companies developing new features for private vehicles, each building a component that will make cars part of a network of fully autonomous vehicles--perhaps eventually making human drivers redundant. It's a future that was imagined in films like Minority Report, with pods taking people to their destination without the need for human intervention. Here are the most important pieces of cutting-edge technology from China that are already being used in cars and forming the foundation of fully autonomous vehicles. The Chinese government expects 50% of all new auto sales in the country to have partial self-driving technology by 2025, while L2 (assisted steering, acceleration, and braking) and L3 automation (vehicles drive themselves in certain settings, like on highways) are expected to make up 70% of car sales by 2030.