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Driverless car or autonomous car is a self-driving car used for human transportation. The car is capable of sensing its environment and navigate without human input. It maintains a safe distance from the vehicle in front at a set speed without deviating from its lane - all without the drivers input. Driver-less cars are guided by a system of sensors and cameras and are seen as potentially safer and more efficient than regular vehicles. These vehicles sense their surroundings with techniques such as radar, lidar, GPS, and computer vision.

Driverless cars will have many benefits over human driven cars. It will reduce traffic collisions, alleviate parking scarcity, improve fuel efficiency, increase roadway capacity and will have the ability to manage traffic flow.

Numerous major companies and research organizations have developed working prototype driver-less vehicles including Mercedes-Benz, Google, Continental Automotive Systems, Bosch, Nissan, Toyota, Audi and Oxford University.

Google has already tested driver-less cars on 1, 60,934 kilometers of roads in San Francisco. Google co-founder Sergey Brin said he believed the self-driving car would "dramatically improve the quality of life for everyone", and that it would be commercially available within the decade.

UK has also decided to test driver-less cars on public roads before 2013.