The British government is the first in the world to allow autonomous vehicles or driverless cars to travel on their public streets beginning January next year. They are rewriting their highway code to include the need for driverless cars. Business Secretary Vince Cable who felt safe in driverless car said this new technology opens up new opportunities for their economy and society. The city of Gothenburg, Sweden has also permitted to test 1,000 driverless cars on 2017. It could be approved in the US within the next five to seven years. The independence of the driverless car is shown in the cruise control, automatic braking, anti-lane drift and self-parking functions already built into the cars. It takes charge of steering, accelerating, indicating and braking during the entire journey between two points like the autopilot in airplanes. It creates the on-line maps by Google and Nokia.

It has "computer vision" which can warn of pedestrians, cyclists, roadworks and other objects that might be in the vehicle's path. And has global-positioning system (GPS) location data from satellites, radar, ultrasonic sensors to detect objects close to the car, and accurately measure the vehicle's orientation and the rotation of its wheel to help it understand its exact location. However, US FBI Directorate of Intelligence also foresaw that autonomous vehicles though can make mobility more efficient, can also open possibilities of being used as possible deadly weapon for criminals. Could it possibly be used and beneficial in developing countries like the Philippines?