Samsung became the first electronics manufacturer, obtained permission to test self-driving vehicles by South Korea's administration, however, the 19^th company in total. The first is Hyundai Motor, exactly for its automobiles the South Korean company creates its sensors and technologies, and also intends to develop an algorithm of unmanned driving, “which can be trusted even in bad weather".

As the head of the company Elon Musk declared, Tesla would be able to move “from the parking in California to the parking in New York without even a person's touch to any controlling mean" by end of the year.

The automobiles of Waymo Company, included in the American Alphabet Group, have already driven several million kilometers in a self-driving mode. In the very near future the company plans to provide several hundred cars for transporting passengers in Arizona.

In February, Ford Motor invested $1 million in Agro Company, which is specialized in developments in the sphere of artificial intelligence. Ford intends to produce a ready for use self-driving vehicle by 2021.

In March, the largest American automobile corporation General Motors bought a start-up from San Francisco Cruise Automation developing self-driving cars. The transaction amount was $600 million.

In August of the last year, Uber announced a partnership with Volvo (the companies will invest $300 million) and began testing its models with a fuction of self-driving in Pittsburgh. At the end of 2016, Uber tested self-driving taxi without securing approval of California's authorities, however, they suspended the registration of self-driving vehicles and moved the tests to Arizona.

In August of 2016, first time in the world, self-driving taxis have begun working in Singapore. The vehicles of the American nuTonomy start-up are moving around the business district in the 6-km area assigned to them.

The Chinese Baidu company intends to test robot cars in a limited area in July and to fully develop a self-driving car service center in 2020.