Via eetimes.com

The driverless car will have a disruptive effect on the automotive industry as we know it. A study from management consulting company McKinsey predicts that this achievement will create many new business opportunities for the automotive industry and will significantly affect many other industry branches such as logistics, insurance and urban planning.

"Though it will take quite a while until we see large numbers of driverless cars on public roads, carmakers should start to cope with the potential consequences. The companies should understand self-driving and connected cars as a disruptive technology which however bears massive business opportunities", says Detlev Mohr, head of McKinsey's European Automotive Consulting Services. Examples are infotainment offerings or individualised service offerings that give priority to the vendor's own repair shops. Such a feature would have a considerable impact on independent workshops.