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BMW presented a level five autonomous driving car at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Monday, a car that would allow its driver to completely take his or her mind off the road, enabling the driver to eat, watch a movie, or even sleep behind the wheel. However, the level five autonomous car still has a way to go before being realised. In the meantime, BMW expects to get level 3 autonomous vehicles called iNEXT on the road by 2021.
A woman has been charged with reckless endangerment after plowing her car into a Manhattan protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Newser reports 52-year-old Kathleen Casillo was driving with her 29-year-old daughter when she said demonstrators began banging on her BMW. Demonstrators were protesting in support of ICE detainees on hunger strike. Casillo says she panicked and hit the gas. Six people have hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries. A demonstrator was charged for allegedly interfering with emergency workers responding to the scene.
Witnesses could not help but admire the determination of paramedics in Russia’s Komi Republic on Saturday, January 6 as they saw what they thought were paramedics desperately trying to attend a call out, despite their ambulance losing a rear wheel along the way. Fortunately, as clarified by the Komi Republic’s Ministry of Health, another ambulance (presumably with all four wheels in place) was able to attend the emergency.
The company prided for building the ultimate driving machine has an ambition plan for helping ridesharing services. By 2021 BMW plans to produce fully autonomous vehicles with the intent of providing ridesharing customers with a driverless alternative. For people that don't like other people, a ridesharing service sans social interactions may be on the way.
Auto-makers say the U.S. could be on the verge of a self-driving car revolution, if only the country's road system and infrastructure was able to keep up. Nathan Frandino has more.