There's already been some serious rumblings about autonomous driving in the past with Google, and now Ford and Kia are making plans for driverless cars - or at least that's what they'd hoped. Ford recently signed up to the California Autonomous Vehicle Testing Program in order to take its autonomous vehicle experiments to public roads. Testing is just another step in the company's decade-long plan to develop autonomous vehicles, Ford Smart Mobility. We've already seen the company invest in its SYNC in-car automated systems and the expansion of using Apple's CarPlay. Ford's CEO Mark Fields said: "We're attracting top talent from around the world to join our team in Silicon Valley, including employees from local technology companies and universities who want to make people's lives better by changing the way the world moves." Ford hopes its autonomous cars will be on the Californian roads in 2016 and to add further reality to the situation, the Californian government has laid out its draft rules requiring autonomous cars to have a human driver behind the wheel. The Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) released its initial draft rules on December 16th. The draft policy incorporates rules that the DMV hopes will address issues involving self-driving cars, such as certification, registration, licensing, safety, privacy and cybersecurity. Basically, that means things are getting pretty real for driverless cars.
