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Abstract:
This paper can help one understand the trends in autonomous vehicle technology from past years and progress and adoption of this technology by masses in upcoming future. This concept dates back to 1939 when first self-driving car came into spotlight in New York World’s Fair. Many efforts have been put in since that, by major car producing companies but a world filled with robotic vehicles isn’t a reality yet. Full-fledged autonomous vehicles are still not that safe to drive but car manufacturers have introduced many autonomous features paving its way to wholly intelligent self-driving cars.

Review of Related Literature:
One of the methodology used in this research paper is literature review to achieve the research objectives. A formal literature review leads to higher data reliability and helps one to diversify the knowledge in the subject research field.
Here are several research articles and their short summaries of how they analyzed the subject research question:
• The Journal of Transport and Land Use by the University of Minnesota Center for Transportation Studies
This research article covers the major aspects of autonomous cars their capabilities, benefits, its impacts and planning interventions. The writers of this article believe that autonomous driving technology have potential to bring smart mobility to our rapidly urbanizing world. It focuses on the travel behavior and long term changes in structure of cities by bringing such vehicles.

• A Review and Analysis of Literature on Autonomous Driving E-Journal: Making-of Innovation by Michael Bartl
The writer of research article inscribes changing trends over time based on the research done related to the subject field. He justifies the facts using charts and tables for last sixty-five years in the progress of automation of vehicles.

• Autonomous Driving in Urban Environments: Boss and the Urban Challenge by C. Urmson C. Baker et ál.
This author’s research article is very comprehensive and focuses on algorithms and techniques to achieve automation. He provided various formulae for the trajectory generation, zone navigation, moving obstacle and detection tracking and roadmap localization for threat free driving. His research article has many illustrations to help the reader understand better.