Bill Gates identifies the upcoming technology that will significantly transform the world.

Bill Gates believes that a major breakthrough in self-driving cars is near and it will happen within the next decade.

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Gates compared this coming advancement to the personal computer's impact on the way people work.

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The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) has classified five levels of driving automation, ranging from no driving automation (Level 0) to full driving automation (Level 5).

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Current automotive science is very close to changing from Level 2 (partial driving automation) to Level 3 (conditional driving automation).

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Level 3 vehicles have environmental detection capabilities and can make informed decisions, but still require human override.

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Level 4 vehicles can intervene if things go wrong or there is a system failure and do not require human interaction in most circumstances.

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Level 5 vehicles do not require human attention and can go anywhere and do anything that an experienced human driver can do.

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Fully autonomous cars are undergoing testing in several pockets of the world, but none are yet available to the general public.

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