A few weeks back I posted a video of an Audi TT auto-piloting the Thunder Hills race-track.

As if that wasn’t enough of a move to strip us humans of the enjoyment of actually driving ourselves around, now German tools Bosch have gone and made it so that while our cars are doing the driving for us, they aren’t going to be able to bump into each other, or ever worse, any pedestrians.

Say it with me: “This is horseshit!”

The first system they’ve come up with is admittedly very clever. An automatic swerve and slow system which triggers when a car detects a pedestrian in the road. This is good because not all pedestrians deserve to be knocked over. Only people on bicycles on Sunday morning and Metro cops.

Functionality coming soon? The ability to warn the car behind you that your car is going to automatically brake and swerve (probably a good idea) and car to car communication to let cars around you know of an accident, road works and (as soon as hackers get hold of it) mobile speed cameras.

The second video demonstrates Bosch’s work in the automatic driving department. This means a car that you get in to, press a button and it takes you to where you’re expecting.

It’s got eyes in the form of a 360 degree camera, and knows it’s location in space thanks to cloud based geo-locating map software. The info from the sensors is put in to the car which plans the route. This route is then sent through to the brakes and accelerator which do all the work.

There is some good news. Take control any time you want by simply taking the steering wheel in your hands. So when you get to a windy, mountain pass, it’s all yours.

Last bit of trivia: 97% of all accidents are down to human error. Kinda makes you think about the use of the word “accident” in this scourge.