The German company Vay offers "television traffic," which implies remote control of cars by people from physical control stations located many miles away, as an intermediate step towards full autonomy.
2023: The first car without a person inside on public roads in Europe
Vay in February 2023 became the first company to release a car without a person inside on a European public road.
Expectations of the imminent appearance of a large number of robot cars were blown away even after investors put about $100 billion on this technology.