BMW and Daimler team up on cars of the future to fend off Silicon Valley

The companies, which compete hard in the lucrative luxury car market, on Thursday announced a strategic partnership focused on highly-automated and autonomous driving."Combining the key expertise of our two companies will boost our innovative strength and speed up the spread of this technology," BMW board member Klaus Fröhlich said in a statement. It's not the only way BMW and Mercedes-Benz owner Daimler are starting to work more closely together.

Deeper cooperation between the German companies is the latest example of established automakers forming partnerships to share the costs of developing new technologies including autonomous driving systems.Hafner said the alliance makes sense because automated driving"will radically transform our industry — and because in the long run we will be not only stronger but also more successful as partners than we would be alone.

German automakers should better focus on nicer, lighter, less gas hungry vehicles...They could never catch up with Tesla and GM.

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Glad I'll probably never see the day. Are you shitting me? Driving a 4 speed manual tranny equipped semi performance car or truck is fun as hell! WTF? I'm so glad I grew up in the 50's/60's, surfing and cruising the SoCal/Baja coast! You had to be there! Aloha!

So y'all are actually doing need now? LOL

Don’t trust those Crouts

Haha nice try Europe but America’s got this one covered!

Shouldn't they invent the riderless bicycle first?

All this talk on automation I would have really expected you to highlight AndrewYangVFA at some point. He is the Democratic candidate with a platform all about automation. Fox news has had him on their Network five separate times why is he not on CNN? yang2020 FreedomDividend

Do we NEED driverless vehicles?

I can't wait to buy a BMW that I don't have to operate.

Gee... AOC told us that we only have 12 years left to live. Didn’t the car companies get the memo? 😏

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