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The biggest leap made in this year's CES was the progress of self-directed vehicles. All the top auto-manufacturers present at Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas shared their plans and presented models of their self-driving cars, making the North Hall of the LA Convention Center as the showstopper of the event. A 50-foot video screen showed videos of these self-driving wonders, extolling its benefits as the cars of the future sparkled in the halls. Car manufacturers gave keynotes, press-conferences and attended hours of backroom meetings to discuss their aggressive plans about bringing these cars into the market in the next four years. "The auto industry will change more in the next 5-10 years than it has in the past 50," said GM CEO Mary Barra during her CES keynote on Wednesday.

CEO Mark Fields of Ford said at a press conference, "I predict that 2016 will be a revolutionary year in the automotive industry." Ford was the hottest topic of discussion in this year's CES a Yahoo news report that talked about partnership of Google and Ford in creation of self-driven cars. Fields played down the rumor saying that Fords partners with many organizations and mostly universities.

It is clear that all the big companies that constitute the world of automotive are excited and nervous about the prospects of self-driving cars. In 2015, Google said that these cars will become a consumer product by 2020 and Tesla's software upgrade of the beta-version of Tesla's self-driving Model S only reinstates the belief. As per a report bought in 2015, based on public records research by The Guardian, Apple is also said to be working on the concept of self-driving cars, as reported by Tech Republic