GM says it could have driverless cars on the road by 2018.

According to the Associated Press, GM is working with parts suppliers, university engineers and other automakers to develop cars that drive themselves. Company Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner will discuss the idea Tuesday afternoon in a keynote address to the Consumer Electronics Show.

"This is not science fiction," Larry Burns, GM's vice president for research and development, tells the AP.

Burns says the biggest obstacles may not be technical, but bureaucratic. Government regulation, liability laws and other issues pose a bigger impediment to driverless cars than any technical hurdles. He says GM will begin testing driverless cars by 2015 and have them on the road by 2018.

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My comments:

GM is too late, as usual. Driverless cars will be here much sooner as bureaucracy comes up against the efficiency of automated cargo.