Will a Car Back Seat Soon Be Your ‘Favorite Space’? BMW Thinks So
With its new Vision iNext concept, the German automaker is planning for an autonomous future in which everything you do while inside a car matters—except driving.
Source: BMW
“This is the new normal: We will offer safe fully autonomous driving by 2021,” declared Klaus Fröhlich, the BMW board member responsible for development. He was wearing a dark suit and standing inside a Lufthansa-branded Boeing 777 parked in a remote hangar at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. By 2025, Fröhlich said, BMW will offer 25 hybrid and electrified vehicles, 12 of which will be fully electric.
It was Sept. 10, and Fröhlich was standing next to a matte-copper and rose-colored car, the so-called Vision iNext, a four-person pure-electric SUV that allows people to either drive themselves in Boost mode or be driven in Ease mode.