Electric and self-driving. The cars of the future are en route. For all the naysayers, I am reminded of what Microsoft manager Steve Ballmer’s mom said when he told her he was joining Bill and company in 1980: “Why in the world would anyone ever need a computer?”
For carmakers, success relies a lot on their ability to make the dashboard appealing and intuitive. And with a big innovation pushing towards cars that can drive themselves, designers can create dashboards that let us do all the other things we’d rather be doing. Bloomberg’s Sam Grobart takes a hands-on look at how Audi, BMW, and Mercedes Benz envision the dashboard of the future. Here is a direct video link.