BMW investing in technology to let cars do the driving

[Dog Face Pony Soldier]

GENEVA (Reuters) - After a century building what it calls the "ultimate driving machine", BMW is preparing for a world in which its customers will be mere passengers, and the cars will do the driving themselves.
Days before BMW's 100th birthday, its board member for research and development described plans for a completely overhauled company, where half the R&D staff will be computer programmers, competing with the likes of Google parent Alphabet to build the brains for self-driving cars.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/exclusive-...--finance.html

[M3 Esq]

The ultimate driving machine looks like it will be the ultimate driven machine. Speaking for all of the drivers out there - yikes!

http://www.reuters.com/article/autos...-idUSKCN0W60HP

[SakhirM4]

OH,NO!!!

[Ghosn]

All the more reason to make the most of what you have now!

[Sassicaia]

At least I'll be no longer driving by the time it's no longer an option to drive yourself.

[Three Pedal Steve]

Bob Lutz has an interesting editorial in R & T. He compares the dawning of autonomous cars to the turn of the 20th century when automobiles replaced horses for transportation. Eventually horses were for farming and recreation. He thinks that in 30 years human driven cars will be found only on private properties- such as farms, estates, and private racing country clubs. He is probably right.

So enjoy your driving experience while you can on public roads.