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In the very near future, auto manufacturers will sell vehicles that drop off their drivers in front of the office, restaurant, or store, locate a parking space and park themselves, then wait until they are summoned, at the push of a button, to retrieve their drivers.

Audi introduced such a technology, called Piloted Parking, all the way back in the technological stone age of 2013. In early January 2015, Audi demonstrated a related technology, Piloted Driving, by having a self-driving car drive itself from San Francisco to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Reportedly, no one, man or machine, was harmed on this autonomous trip.