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ZURICH, Switzerland - The vision of autonomous driving will soon become reality and fundamentally change the interaction of man and car, a report says. While the research centres of the automotive industry are still feverishly working on the technical solutions, progressive thinkers such as the Swiss idea factory Rinspeed are already giving concrete thought about to how automated private transport will transform the car and the man-machine system.
Apart from fundamental conceptual changes, this will also have to involve issues of ethics and society.
In the past, robots in the world's factories have merely assembled cars for people. In the new Budii concept car from Swiss automotive visionary Frank M. Rinderknecht the machine now literally reaches out to man: if the occupants of the autonomously driving electric vehicle feel like having some fun at the wheel on a twisty country road or off road, a robotic arm will hand the steering wheel to the driver or a front seat passenger, thereby transferring command.
