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Automakers face big, costly challenges to make self-driving cars a reality

The auto industry has spent 5.8 billion euros on autonomous driving solutions in the last 2 years and will spend up to 27 billion euros more on the technology over the next 5 years, according to estimates.
June 04, 2017 05:00 AM

Fear of disruption from companies such as Google and Uber has prompted automakers to pour billions into developing self-driving cars. Now they are realizing that achieving the dream of fully autonomous driving will take much longer than their initial promises.

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