CES 2023 Car Tech: The Coolest Auto News Out of Las Vegas This Week - CNET

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The CES successful Las Vegas whitethorn beryllium considered the astir influential tech lawsuit successful the world, but it's besides one of the largest and astir important car shows successful the US.

This twelvemonth astatine CES 2023, hundreds of exhibitors from crossed the automotive assemblage person already unveiled immoderate of their latest products and cutting-edge technologies; BMW announced the futuristic one Vision Dee electrical car, portion Sony and Honda revealed their electrical car prototype called Afeela, integrated with Epic Games' Unreal Engine exertion to supply next-level entertainment, connection and information features.

If you privation to instrumentality a person look astatine the caller car exertion that's been unveiled astatine CES 2023 truthful far, cheque it retired below. For more, present are the wildest highlights we've seen this week and the wackiest tech excessively astatine CES.

BMW's color-changing conception car

At CES 2023, BMW unveiled the one Vision Dee, a futuristic midsize electrical sedan with a integer assistant, color-changing exertion and an augmented-reality (AR) windshield. The car's exterior is equipped with 240 e-ink segments that tin beryllium controlled individually; you could spell with a coagulated colour if you want, but each abstracted sheet tin beryllium customized, truthful you tin spell brainsick with patchwork designs. But the astir breathtaking caller diagnostic has to beryllium the afloat digital, mixed world windscreen. You'll beryllium capable to determine however overmuch "digital content" you spot successful beforehand of you portion you drive, such arsenic driving information, communications, AR projections and virtual worlds.

Mixed Reality caput up show successful action

Sony and Honda announced an electrical sedan with Unreal Engine-designed interfaces

Sony and Honda unveiled Afeela, an electrical midsized sedan, at CES 2023 on Wednesday. The confederation betwixt the 2 companies works similar this -- Honda provides the automotive engineering and after-sales work part, portion Sony covers the tech broadside of things, including electronics, sensors and, of course, entertainment. The beforehand of the car has a built-in show that tin beryllium utilized to amusement disconnected accusation to different drivers and pedestrians, portion the full assemblage comes equipped with dozens of cameras and sensors to observe objects and supply an autonomous driving experience. Inside, the interface of the car is powered Qualcomm exertion and Epic Games' Unreal Engine to heighten the driving acquisition and supply a thorough amusement system.

Afeela Sony car announced astatine CES 2023

Amazon Ring present wants to unrecorded successful you car

Amazon's Ring creates information cameras for your location and business, to supply information and let you to support an oculus connected bundle deliveries and different activities, and present it wants to bash the aforesaid happening for your automobile. The Ring Car Cam is simply a conveyance dashboard dual-facing camera that tin grounds some wrong and extracurricular your car portion you're driving oregon parked. While the camera stores footage locally, it tin link to your Wi-Fi web whenever you're parked adjacent to upload footage. You tin besides get LTE enactment to ever enactment connected, allowing you to presumption a unrecorded provender successful lawsuit idiosyncratic other has your car; you'll request to wage for a Ring Protect Go subscription for that. You tin preorder the Ring Car Cam for $200 close now, oregon hold to bargain it erstwhile it releases for $250 successful February.

The Ring Car Cam, a dual-facing dashcam with Wi-Fi connectivity, sits atop the dashboard of a conveyance pulling past a bokeh background.

An electrical pickup motortruck ... that follows you around?

Ram unveiled the Ram 1500 Revolution BEV, its archetypal ever afloat electrical pickup truck, astatine CES 2023. The electrical pickup motortruck comes equipped with swinging "suicide doors," 3 rows of seats, AR display, an AI idiosyncratic adjunct and "themes" for the interior of the car. For example, you tin alteration a enactment mode oregon unbend mode -- each changes the spot positions and orientation, lighting, dependable strategy and adjacent the opacity of the skylight. But the astir absorbing happening astir the electrical motortruck has to beryllium its "shadow mode" feature, which allows the motortruck to travel the operator around, benignant of similar a dog, erstwhile they're connected foot.

Nvidia volition bring its gaming level to prime cars

GeForce Now, Nvidia's fashionable unreality gaming work that allows you to play games similar Fortnite and Apex Legends connected your phone, tablet and TV, is soon coming to your car. During their showcase astatine CES 2023, Nvidia announced a concern with Hyundai Motor Group, Polestar and BYD to integrate the gaming level to respective internet-connected vehicles. A rider successful the car tin load up GeForce Now successful a built-in car show and play games specified arsenic Rocket League with a connected gamepad.

Google launched its caller Android Auto update

On Thursday, Google announced the merchandise of its latest Android Auto software. The redesign prioritizes navigation, connection and euphony -- for starters, Maps is present person to the driver's seat, making it easier to view, and there's besides a caller speedy launcher that lets you entree the apps you request most, faster. There's besides a caller split-screen layout that adapts to your surface size and orientation, and Google adjunct provides astute suggestions similar accomplishment clip sharing, connection replies and euphony oregon podcast reminders. If you person 1 of the latest Pixel oregon Samsung phones, you'll soon beryllium capable to marque WhatsApp calls via Android Auto.

And of course, a four-seater flying car was announced

Flying cars haven't rather taken disconnected yet, but we look to beryllium 1 measurement closer. US institution Aska announced what whitethorn beryllium the world's archetypal four-seater flying car astatine CES this year. The Aska A5 is an electrical powered vehicle, the size of a tiny SUV, that tin question connected the roadworthy and up to 250 miles by aerial with a azygous charge. It's besides equipped with a tiny state motor that tin springiness you an other 50 miles. And you tin expect it to his the roads (and the skies) beauteous soon. According to CEO Guy Kaplinsky, the FAA could o.k. the A5 this month, and the institution plans to statesman a ride-sharing work with a fleet of its flying vehicles successful 2026. The A5 comes with a hefty terms tag of $789,000, and you tin wage a $5,000 deposit to get connected the preorder list right now.