Title: The Year in Science and Technology: Self-driving cars

Content: <div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/710/car_audio.m4a' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='The Year in Science and Technology: Self-driving cars' data-article-id='1098'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='8167'>One of the biggest changes coming down the road: the ability of cars to drive themselves. </span> <span data-start-time='8167' data-end-time='12792'>Some day you may not need to drive a car. </span> <span data-start-time='12792' data-end-time='20354'>You will just program, or tell the car where you want to go, and it will drive itself.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='20354' data-end-time='31896'>Andrew Poliak, of automotive technology supplier QNX, says the technology is already here. </span> <span data-start-time='31896' data-end-time='41375'>“We expect self-driving cars to be a mainstream thing between 2020 and 2025.”</span> <span data-start-time='41375' data-end-time='51521'>Google, an American company, already has self-driving cars on the road, mostly in California. </span> <span data-start-time='51521' data-end-time='57875'>There is no steering wheel and no brake or gas pedals.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' 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One of the biggest changes coming down the road: the ability of cars to drive themselves. Some day you may not need to drive a car. You will just program, or tell the car where you want to go, and it will drive itself.

Andrew Poliak, of automotive technology supplier QNX, says the technology is already here. “We expect self-driving cars to be a mainstream thing between 2020 and 2025.” Google, an American company, already has self-driving cars on the road, mostly in California. There is no steering wheel and no brake or gas pedals.

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