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In this edition of the Bottom Line, we're talking about the future of the car.

Will it be driverless?

And what are the implications?

Hello and welcome to the Bottom Line.

Right now, we're perhaps poised at a moment of transformation in the transport industry,

not seen since the invention of the combustion engine.

Technology is driving it, aided by social change as well, and so today we're looking at the

future of the car.

Now, it's a measure of how everyone is feeling their way that we've had an extraordinary

flurry of alliances between car manufacturers and technology companies or cab apps, Uber and Volvo, Google and Ford,

Lyft and General Motors, and Volkswagen and the app Get. Well, my three guests will be able to

talk us through what is going on, the hopes and fears of those in the industry, and what it means for the rest of us.

So let's meet them. And my first guest is Georg L, who's Tesla's director in Western Europe.

You've been there two or three years. So just for people who haven't followed the Tesla's story, Georg, tell us a little about the company.

And Elon Musk, it's very charismatic

founder. So Tesla was founded about 12 years ago in California. We built the world's first and only

premium fully electric cars. We've about 160,000 cars on the road that have done collectively

just over 3 billion miles, one and a half billion of

which is driven using our autopilot technologies.

Right.

And Elon's an extraordinary chap who from a very early age decided he would invest in a number

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