Consumer Electronics Show

LG and Luxoft form WebOs Auto joint venture

LG Electronics and Luxoft signing ceremony at CES

LG Electronics and Luxoft, a DXC technology company, agreed to develop and expand the WebOs Auto platform jointly in production-ready systems.

Blackberry unveils digital cockpit platform at CES

Blackberry unveils QNX platform for digital cockpits

At this week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Blackberry is unveiling what it claims is the world’s first digital cockpit platform that lets car makers provide the in-car experience drivers want, with the security, safety and reliability they need.

The QNX platform for digital cockpits lets car makers offer a reliable and secure QNX-based digital instrument cluster and infotainment system that provides access to the latest Android-based applications such as Google Maps and Google Play Music all from a single ECU.

Nissan sees the invisible at CES

An avatar can appear inside the car to provide assistance

At next week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nissan will unveil its future vision for a vehicle that helps drivers “see the invisible” by merging real and virtual worlds to create a connected-car experience.

Invisible-to-visible, or I2V, is a technology created through Nissan Intelligent Mobility, the company’s vision for changing how cars are powered, driven and integrated into society. I2V will demonstrate the future of driving to CES visitors through an interactive, three-dimensional immersion experience.

Kia to get emotional at CES

Kia's planned display for CES 2019

Kia Motors will preview a range of technologies for the post-autonomous driving era at next month’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.

Kia’s interactive Space of Emotive Driving exhibit looks to a future when autonomous driving is the norm and priority is given to improving the human mobility experience. Central to this concept is Kia’s new Real-time Emotion Adaptive Driving (Read) system developed based on joint research with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab’s affective computing group.

Innoviz announces mems-based scanning lidar at CES

InnovizPro stand-alone, solid-state, mems-based scanning lidar

Innoviz Technologies announced at this week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas the commercial launch of InnovizPro, a stand-alone, solid-state, mems-based scanning lidar.

A CES Innovation Awards winner in the vehicle intelligence and self-driving technology category, InnovizPro is said to to deliver ground-breaking 3D sensing at a significantly lower cost. It is claimed to be the only lidar available that delivers on all of the automotive industry's needs for performance, reliability, cost, compact size and product maturity.

Bosch and Ultrahaptics demonstrate haptic technology at CES

Bosch and Ultrahaptics demonstrate mid-air haptic technology

At this week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Bosch and Ultrahaptics jointly demonstrated mid-air haptic technology in a concept car.

The touchless haptic technology is said to enhance gesture control, providing a human–machine interface for Bosch’s infotainment system. It offers drivers the reassurance that their hands are in the right area for a gesture to be recognised and an immediate haptic response to an instruction.

VW to reveal mobility vision at CES

Volkswagen's future mobility vision

Volkswagen plans to unveil it vision of future mobility at next moth’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. This, it says, will be a world of intelligent connectivity and sustainable vehicles.

The Volkswagen presentation at CES 2017 will focus on the networking of people, vehicles and surrounding environments.

Continental CES launch will let motorcyclists see round corners

Continental's eHorizon system for motorbikes

Continental developers in Singapore will launch at next month’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas a system that will enable motorcyclists to see around corners.

The eHorizon system for two-wheelers interconnects bikers, offers a shared platform to motorcyclist communities, and allows motorcyclists to share important route information. With this, the international technology company is using the concept of swarm intelligence, which continuously supplies the digital map in the backend with accurate and up-to-date information.

In wake of emissions scandal, VW focuses on EVs at CES

Herbert Diess addresses the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas

In a bid to put the diesel emissions scandal behind it, Volkswagen’s CEO Herbert Diess used his keynote speech at this week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to focus on the work the car maker is doing in the electric vehicle field.

Volkswagen presented the Budd-e concept car, which is based on the MEB modular electric drive kit and Diess claimed it was the next big step for electric vehicles. He said in front of 2300 visitors to the show that "the Budd-e is a realistic trend setter".

Rightware reveals connected car HMI concept at CES

Triton connected HMI concept from Rightware

Rightware, a provider of user interface creation software for the automotive industry, revealed at this week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas its vision of tomorrow's connected car user interface. The concept, called Triton, shows how car manufacturers can rapidly develop multi-display user experiences with unified look and feel in the car.

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