More autonomous vehicles sales

First, the latest market report, showing that autonomous vehicles will post the strongest sales growth over the next five years, greater than 5%. Software control of the vehicles will be the stongest selling component. From report linker via Reuters.

In this report the results of safety issues regarding the deployment of autonomous forklifts:

"However, forklift-related injuries look to be a thing of the past as new vehicle automation technology aims to increase workplace safety by getting people out of the forklift equation all together."

And a report that Toyota is pushing autonomous vehicle technology out to the consumer:

"With the launch of the remodeled Crown Majesta last month, Toyota Motor has taken its safety program to a new level.

The luxury sedan, flagship of the automaker's revamped domestic sales organization, is equipped with two all-new safety systems: VDIM (for Vehicle Dynamics Integrated Management) and a pre-crash radar system that integrates millimeter-wave radar with a CCD camera. Other advanced safety features on the car include lane-keeping assist, near-infrared night vision and adaptive-front lighting."

Here is a new one, Sensible Machines, already selling an autonomous utility truck for public and private roads. This U Tube shows a vendor vehicle autonously driving a Slalom course.Valde Systems has produced the standard vision component for the general autonomous vehicle.

And Kiva Systems deliverbots, HT Brad Templeton.

Here is another in the food industry.

"Unique, new automatic guided vehicles (AGVs) with advanced-automation features are having a major impact at a new distribution center built by a major carbonated-beverages producer in the southeastern part of the U.S."

So, Google designers think autonomous vehicles will arrive in 2040, yet these vendors and others already have deployed them today.