At CES, connected cars are a touch less exotic
- 8 years ago
The messages blaring from countless auto-tech videos and booths at the 2016 Consumer Electronics share a similar vision: we're about to zoom into the The Jetson s era.
Maybe by 2020, and certainly by 2030, we will live in a world populated by vehicles that will chauffeur us where we need to go.
And after the umpteenth demo of life-saving technology that helps cars see and react to trouble seconds before a human can register the problem, I was overwhelmed by the realization that one day soon we may look at a person driving a car and label them either a Luddite or a death-defying risk taker.
Toyota executives revealed a $1 billion commitment to pursue artificial intelligence options for robotic transportation through the company's academically stacked Toyota Research Institute project, while Kia, once simply a manufacturer of low-cost vehicles, announced it would be launching its own autonomous car program .
And in certainly one of the more curious auto events here this week, mysterious Chinese-backed Faraday Future unveiled a rakish, tech-stuffed supercar on Monday that didn't seem to directly address the growing call to make fewer and more practical cars, thereby stoking chatter about whether the company remains a front for Apple .
Maybe by 2020, and certainly by 2030, we will live in a world populated by vehicles that will chauffeur us where we need to go.
And after the umpteenth demo of life-saving technology that helps cars see and react to trouble seconds before a human can register the problem, I was overwhelmed by the realization that one day soon we may look at a person driving a car and label them either a Luddite or a death-defying risk taker.
Toyota executives revealed a $1 billion commitment to pursue artificial intelligence options for robotic transportation through the company's academically stacked Toyota Research Institute project, while Kia, once simply a manufacturer of low-cost vehicles, announced it would be launching its own autonomous car program .
And in certainly one of the more curious auto events here this week, mysterious Chinese-backed Faraday Future unveiled a rakish, tech-stuffed supercar on Monday that didn't seem to directly address the growing call to make fewer and more practical cars, thereby stoking chatter about whether the company remains a front for Apple .