https://medium.com/enrique-dans/in-case-you-havent-heard-autonomous-driving-is-already-here-82f82b9b41d5

For some years now, the date of 2020 has been an arbitrary milestone, the moment when being transported by a self-driving vehicle would be normal in more and more cities around the world. That prediction, that scenario typically prompted denials from short-sighted people unable to understand the exponential development of technology and who preferred to believe that autonomous driving would always be a thing of the future.

But technology and competition are nothing if not stubborn. We are in 2018, and the pioneering city of Phoenix, Arizona, where pioneer and leader in the field, Waymo, began testing autonomous vehicles without a safety driver in November 2017 is now being joined by more than 20 US cities, chosen according to their weather and road conditions, while other brands carry out tests in other cities around the world.