Self-driving/driverless cars are coming, it's just a matter of how much longer society will have to wait before seeing them on the road everyday.

Left to right: Rich Hilleman (Electronic Arts), Dr. Frankie James (General Motors), Sahin Kirtavit (NVIDIA), Oriol Servia (Dragon Racing)

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Speaking at DICE 2016 today, during a panel titled "Automobiles, the Next Mobile Platform," Sahin Kirtavit, Senior Director of Automotive Solutions at NVIDIA, says he believes autonomous vehicles will hit the road "in the next few years." NVIDIA already has a hand in Volvo's development of self-driving cars , as the car maker has plans to use the NVIDIA's Drive PX 2."I think you're going to see truly self driving cars—I'm not talking about cars that drive only thirty seconds and then gives control back to you—truly self-driving cars in the next few years on the road," said Kirtavit. "And we are super excited that once the car drives itself, what you're going to do is play games."Kirtavit also explained that NVIDIA used Gran Turismo's game engine to aid in its self-driving simulations. The company needed better looking visuals, and GT has everything they needed."We actually used the game engine two years ago to start our simulation effort and we figured out we needed more high fidelity graphics. The game engines have a lot that the simulator needs. I think game engines are extremely close to perfect simulators."In other autonomous car news, California wants a driver inside of every self-driving vehicle . Meanwhile, development of the technology will have $4 billion invested into it over the next 10 years, alongside the introduction of a new set of laws and polices specifically made for such vehicles.

Kyree is a tech news writer for IGN who can't wait to have his car go to the store instead of him. Follow and talk to him on Twitter @KyreeLeary