Bosch Is Teaching Cars To Drive Themselves!

Bosch is teaching cars to drive themselves!

- Bertrand D'souza

An automated car is one that takes the driver out of the entire action of driving. An autonomous car is capable of making its own decisions and acting on them without the driver having to intervene. The day isn’t far when automobiles can drive themselves. Bosch says autonomous technology can reach level 4 by 2019. At level 4, human intervention in the entire driving process will be minimal, almost down to zero. The car will make all the necessary decisions required to reach its destination without the driver having to step into the process of driving. That is absolutely fascinating considering autonomous technology is currently at level 3, where cars need significantly more human intervention to make certain key decisions. At level 5, the car will think for itself! It all sounds a bit Verne-ian, but the reality is certainly something akin to ‘Skynet’ becoming self-aware.

At Bosch’s Mobility Experience held at their facilities in Boxberg, Germany, I had the pleasure of meeting Skynet, er... an autonomous car. It’s both revolutionary and revolting at the same time. Revolutionary because of what it can do and will be able to do shortly. Revolting because it’s soon going to make me redundant. And I so love driving cars!