I’m preparing a list of the trends of 2016 that I’ll be looking for at #CES2016.
I found this one through the CES web page. Sharing it here, as I already know driver less cars is high on my list.
This announcement is one I’ve been expecting. I see jobs lost and pushback from drivers being a huge issue in the next 10 years. Currently 11.4% of jobs here in the US require driving trains, planes and automobiles. I think we’ll have to deal with a lot of angry truckers and delivery people, along with millions who wonder if autonomous vehicles will ever be safe.
BEIJING (By Jake Spring, Reuters) -China’s top online search firm Baidu Inc said it aims to put self-driving buses on the road in three years and mass produce them within five years, after it set up a business unit to oversee all its efforts related to automobiles.
The unit will also include its initiative in partnership with BMW AG to develop an autonomous passenger vehicle, which may also be put into mass production within five years, a spokesman told Reuters on Monday.
Self-driving cars have emerged as a new battlefront for tech majors globally. Alibaba Group Holding says it will launch its first car in a partnership with China’s SAIC Motor Corp, while U.S. tech heavyweights Google and Apple are also developing autonomous cars.
CES is going to be huge for this movement. Listening to SVP Jeff Joseph interview and it keeps going back to driverless vehicles. 2016 is going to feature automotive executives keynotes at the show.
Today. Cars are a consumer electronics product.