In Pictures: 20 cars that drive themselves

Given that MIT in the US is now working on a safer prototype for autonomous vehicles, using communications technology to expand the cars’ field of vision, these vehicles may make the leap from science fiction to reality sooner than previously thought. Driverless cars have already been legalised in California and Nevada, and Google says we’ll see them on the road in five years. Here are the prototypes that have helped the industry get to this point.

The VisLab electric driverless van

In the longest recorded trip by an unmanned vehicle in history, Italian company VisLab’s electric van traveled 8,077 miles from Italy to China in a three-month span in 2010.

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