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BMW Says Self-Driving Car To Be Level 5 Capable In Five Years (reuters.com)

Posted by msmash on from the shape-of-things-to-come dept.

German carmaker BMW is on track to deliver a self-driving car by 2021, the company's senior vice president for Autonomous Driving, Elmar Frickenstein, said on Thursday. From a report: "We are on the way to deliver a car in 2021 with level 3, 4 and 5," Frickenstein told a panel discussion in Berlin, explaining the vehicle will have different levels of autonomy, depending on how and where it is used. A level 5 vehicle is capable of navigating roads without any driver input, while a level 3 car still needs a steering wheel and a driver who can take over if the car encounters a problem.

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  1. Re:So what? by reboot246 · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Kids who grow up in a family that has a car of any kind now are not learning how to drive. Driver education is just about a complete failure. The written tests and road tests to get your license are a joke.

    I have about 2 million miles of driving experience and I've just about seen it all. Very few people really know how to drive and phones have made a bad situation worse. I wish they would get off the road and leave the driving to people who know how to do it right.

    Instead of self-driving cars we need to have all vehicles equipped with manual transmissions and have real tests of a person's driving ability. I guarantee it would remove 75% of drivers (or more) from the road. Wanta drive, kid? Show how much you want it by learning how or take public transportation.

  2. Re:So what? by thinkwaitfast · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Yeah, I remember being called names and downvoted when I said no way that was going to happen. I even wonder about five years. I took a ferry last week and despite talking with three different people I was still clueless, not to mention the hand signals that people were giving me.

    wait, what lane do you want me to go in?

    Randomly picks a lane, wait for yelling to commence if I guess wrong.