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Self-driving car is no longer a dream.

Ford's chairman and namesake Bill Ford took to the stage among technology companies at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week to reveal the 'Blueprint for Mobility,' which contains some intriguing insights on how the brand believes we'll be driving in the future.

Very soon, we'll see more autonomy in parking and driving in slow moving traffic, the automaker says, with more cars able to drive themselves in situations such as traffic jams (Audi is already embracing this future, planning to introduce the technology in the A8 over the coming years).

We'll also see new vehicle ownership models such as car sharing, Ford predicted -- but after 2017 is where it really gets interesting.

Semi-autonomous systems akin to an autopilot could be introduced within a decade, it says, most likely using another vehicle's movements such as 'platooning', currently being tested by Volvo and the SARTRE project -- this would allow the driver to sit back for longer periods, but still retake control when desired.

Most likely, the period between 2017 and 2025 will also see significantly more vehicle-to-vehicle communications, Ford said, helping to reduce the number of accidents at intersections and enabling autonomous highway lane changing and exiting.

Smart vehicles --for so long a dream and now being tested by firms such as Google -- will finally become a reality, pulling up outside our door to whisk us to the destination automatically.

Well before that, you can also make your car smarter by installing HiTV's smart iDroid8000 in your dashboard to get a taste of a smarter future.