Vehicles may be faster and more eco-friendly than when they were first invented, but the basic blueprint has remained the same: They’ve always been boxes with four wheels operated by a human steering the wheel. With autonomous vehicles on the horizon, though, we can expect our relationship with cars—and our cars’ relationship to the world—to drastically change. See here how the world will look when the new era of automobiles arrives, which, by the way, will happen sooner than you think.