The article is supposed to predict the future but is flawed. The first part is how electric vehicles will make everything different, because electric is the future. So exhausts, batteries, and others are a thing of the past because of electric vehicles. No mention of hydrogen cars, or cleaner regular gas powered cars.
Then there is negating their own predictions with a prediction. You don't need mirrors because cameras are so common, and then you don't need cameras because the car will drive itself.
There is also a push for phones being the controller of the car. No keys, just a phone. Adjust everything by phone. Then they say the phone won't connect directly to the car because it's wireless charging.
There are some cool ideas, but the prediction is bad.
What are bad predictions you've seen? What are your predictions?
The backup camera shit does seem particularly confused. Bad article. Dashboard displays are not going anywhere and a self driving car is going to need high quality cameras all around, so there's no reason for there not to be a backup camera. Literally just route the image from a rear facing camera to the in dash display.
There's actually a lot of really cool internal combustion engine tech around the corner (like Freevalve) hopefully the ICE engines will survive to see it common.
I look forward to ICE being common.