Car Tech Outlook: Self-Driving Cars Are Just Around the Corner

The technology inside cars is accelerating, and this explosion of innovation is expected to get even more profound in the coming years. This infographic shows the near-future of car tech, revealing what might happen in the next five years.

many of today's techno-cruisemobiles, and they are . The day we let the car automatically park itself while we sat behind the wheel — watching it being turned by what seemed like a ghost — was the moment we realized that self-driving cars can't be that far off.

This infographic tells us that self-driving vehicles are right around the corner, set to hit showrooms by 2017.