BMW just put its car configurator inside ChatGPT. You type what kind of car you want and the bot builds it for you. Nobody asked for this.

There is not one person on earth who wanted to buy a car but couldn't because the dropdown menus were too hard. Meanwhile since July 7 every new car sold in the EU legally has to point an infrared camera at your face while you drive.

So the industry read the room, correctly identified that people are exhausted by fake plastic AI garbage and want something real, and shipped a chatbot salesman and a camera that stares at you. Nailed it.

You know what I actually want? A 911. Manual. No screen, no assistant, no camera watching me blink. Not a smartphone on wheels.