Digital technology, with its displays, sensors and chips is the "engine" of tomorrow’s car. And it will be a car that is no longer just connected but hyper-connected, namely integrated into a network fabric, the so-called Internet of things, made of customised services for users who are "always on" and, perhaps, of cars that do a bit of the driving. This year too the Las Vegas CES, the great hi-tech show, has become a Motor Show proper dedicated to the evolution of the car, and the inevitable effects on design that has to invent new shapes to dress new spaces. An example? The BMW concept car baptised Inside Future: this exhibits aesthetic and technological innovations (and provocations) conjuring up the idea of the extent to which autonomous driving, far from…
