BMW's Bold Plan to Make a Fully Self-Driving Car by 2021

BMW, a company that prides itself on building "the ultimate driving machine," plans to start producing fully autonomous vehicles by 2021 for ridesharing programs. Think of it as Uber for people who don't like people. This is a surprising move, given that the company has said essentially nothing about technology that everyone from Google to General Motors to Tesla is racing to develop. And it marks a radical departure from the slow-and-steady approach of the mainstream automakers, who see the technology rolling out slowly over the next two decades. Still, ze Germans see themselves surging ahead by relying upon help from Intel and Mobileye, an Israeli firm that dominates the market for the cameras that are key to active safety features like collision warning and lane-keeping.