I drove BMW’s next-gen self-driving car – and this is what it taught me about the future of motoring

Nestled in the rolling hills near the Czech Republic’s western border with Germany, lies Sokolov. It’s the home of what BMW calls the Future Mobility Development Center, or as one BMW staffer at the site told me, it’s basically “a giant playground for cars”. It represents a €300 million investment by BMW in the region.