The event will bring together legislators, industry leaders and experts, and others involved in the developing technologies that could make driverless cars a reality.
Already, non-car companies like Google are showing the way with experimental additions to standard cars that allow them to travel with minimal input or supervision by the driver.
Auto companies too are researching heavily in the idea, increasingly adding technologies to their products like Active Cruise Control, Anti-Collision systems, and similar which take over many of the critical functions for automated driving.
This writer has already been in a Ford experimental car which drives itself in stop-go traffic situations.
The conference will focus on the three main areas which impact on the idea — legislation and liability, equipment, and software. It is being held on June 11-12.
