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      01-13-2021, 04:01 PM   #52
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Originally Posted by oz555 View Post
The future is scary. BMW will no longer be a driver's car. It will be a vehicle for listening podcasts while ambient lighting is changing in accordance to your depression. They will be heavy souless vehicles for souless people who enjoy Driving system professional driving their car. They can even change a name to BNW (Brave new world).
Honestly, the current time is a really challenging time to be a car maker and planning for the future. Look at what the market is telling them... On one hand you have users like us who like driving and want a car that is exciting for this. On the other hand you have users who are drooling over a future where cars drive themselves. In a driverless future driving dynamics are useless.

You also have ever tightening safety and pollution regulations. Some places, like the EU, are requiring cars to prevent speeding at all and advanced safety systems require a middleman between you and the car. A computer driver can also be extremely efficient pollution wise. Savings lives is important and we shouldn't discount that in all of this. But it really makes building a "driver's car" really difficult unless you're able to price the cost for missing safety and pollution targets into the vehicle (translation: more expensive niche cars become "driver's cars").

All that said, they could still deliver a better iDrive here. What Mercedes showed off is leaps and bounds better and that's astonishing to me since this is one of the key areas that pulled me from MB to BMW!
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