The architect of BMW’s autonomous car strategy, Elmar Frickenstein, has said that supercomputers, 100pc 5G connectivity and artificial intelligence will be needed to make self-driving cars a worldwide reality by 2021.
“Autonomous driving is definitely coming at BMW – we are working to have fully automated driving by 2021.”
He said that while there are many self-driving car prototypes, for truly safe autonomous conditions to exist, there are still a lot of things that need to come together.
“We need higher performance supercomputing, we need more artificial intelligence and we need better computer vision.”
