Ghosn sees mass marketing of driverless cars by 2021

Carlos Ghosn

Nissan Motor Company Chairman and former CEO Carlos Ghosn said on Sunday he believes the mass marketing of driverless cars by U.S. automakers is right around the corner.

“I would predict that this will come between 2021 and 2022," Ghosn, who also is chairman and CEO of French auto company Renault, told Trish Regan on “Sunday Morning Futures."

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Ghosn said the reason it will still be a few years before more driverless cars are produced has to do with regulators and the robustness of the market for the vehicles.

“We need also the regulator to accept the fact that, on a mass marketing point of view, you’re going to have plenty of cars without [a] driver. So I would say prototypes are ready — 2018, 2019. We’re gonna be continuing to work on robustness of the system — 2021 will be my guess," he said