The only thing I don&#x27;t agree with is the car manufacturer in this post.<p>Look at all the examples cited for self driving cars in movies - what&#x27;s the key similarity ? All the self driving cars looked the same.<p>If life mimics movies then it won&#x27;t be Ford, BMW, Mercedes, etc... building self driving cars. It&#x27;ll be Google, Apple, Tesla and maybe Microsoft building self driving cars and we get our choice of color and luxuries (think screen size and storage).<p>Google re-coupes costs via geolocation and selling advertisements for anything and everything you come in close proximity to; Apple re-coupes costs by selling at a premium &#x2F; iCloud &#x2F; iTunes integration. Tesla - premium and Microsoft... who knows hah :) XBox version 20 for the kids in the back buying game from the live store.<p>The traditional car manufacturers (what&#x27;s left of them after this shift of the industry) share the last 5% of the pie for die hard petrol heads, families that live in rural parts of the country with poor road conditions &#x2F; non-conducive to self driving cars and building engines for Nascar &#x2F; Formula 1 &#x2F; Formula E.