Ever since we started reporting on autonomous driving, we've had trouble understanding it. There are wonderful videos showing how self-driving cars weave their way through complex traffic. Even the driver who was initially there for the control has disappeared.

Even the head of Cruise confide himself to his company's self-driving taxi, albeit at night, apparently because of the calmed traffic at that time. Then sometimes only a few sensors are required on board, as with Tesla, or very many, including three particularly expensive lidars.

The latter at Waymo, who even bring German reporters into the country to give them an autonomous taxi ride, but in a hybrid and not in a pure electric car. Be that as it may, the ride works and the taxi even stops when the occupants call.

After all, this is the answer to our long-standing question how a difficult situation that occurs from time to time in road traffic and which can only be resolved by a real driver can be overcome. At least Waymo offers here a partial solution.

In fact, there is a call center. You will be connected there when you shout out from the car. However, there is a problem as with all call centers, the people there are no professionals. Long story short, the most they can do is send someone there to help.

And it is precisely this gap that the start-up MIRA, in which 'the Rheinmetall Group brings together its competencies from various group companies', is now filling. Not unimportant to know, Rheinmetall is not only known as an automotive supplier, but rather as an armaments group.

Perhaps the most suitable basis for the undertaking to apply so-called teleoperation to road traffic. You may have heard of their use in the medical field, where operations or interventions can actually be carried out remotely.

Unfortunately, we hear enough about military applications, be it remote-controlled missiles or even targeted attacks on vehicles with suspected terrorists. The mere mention of the term 'drones' brings to light already a multitude of possible applications.

Should war once again be the trigger for the acceleration of technical inventions? In this case, maybe once with a really helpful result. As the picture above shows, someone is driving around in a car, but he's sitting in a studio somewhere.

This is exactly what we have always asked for. It is, so to speak, the basis on which all those who are already developing products on the subject of 'autonomous driving' should think ahead. After all, how else should one be able to solve the problem of the insoluble traffic situation?

At MIRA, it is not entirely unjustified to point out that the 'certified hardware and software' meets the highest requirements for functional safety and cyber security'. It's crazy that one has initially in mind the 'control of on-demand shuttles' and 'needs-based delivery and return of sharing vehicles'.

Apparently, the whole complex of 'autonomous driving' is not yet trusted, otherwise the shuttles would be allowed to drive themselves to 'Demand'. Or let them come back from use as sharing objects and only switch on the expensive driving assistant in the event of a problem.

So, for example, if the parcel cart could not get to the depot with the many boxes from addressees to complete its automated delivery. One would be almost irreplaceable in the case of sudden illnesses of passengers, either in order to call for help or drive to the hospital faster yourself.

Now we'll leave you alone with possible thoughts of a rosy future, with perhaps really less traffic and, in addition, safer transport for people who are not able to drive themselves, in addition to public transport. But not carried out by the parents, as is the case with children, but to relieve them while perhaps doing without a second car.