Autonomous driving, better displays, biometrics and camera. The 2025 Consumer Electronics Show earlier this year in Las Vegas offered a look at what technologies may be coming to your cars and trucks in the near future.
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HCMF Automotive is a machine tool maker turned automotive supplier. The interactive digital technology it showed could mean replacing snack-stained iPads with chocolate-smudged windows.
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Hyundai Mobis was one of many companies showing off head-up displays at the show. With onboard computing systems getting more sophisticated, you have to display that data somewhere. Other companies featured HUDs at the show included Adayo, BOE, Newision and Kotei.
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Waymo, a subsidiary of Google/Alphabet, showed off the 6th generation of its autonomous vehicle technology. Waymo is offering robotaxi services in California today using Jaguar EVs. The model in Las Vegas showed the tech on a Hyundai Ioniq 6 EV.
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May Mobility, another AV startup, says its real-time learning system called Multi-Policy Decision Making (MPDM) should allow the AI make difficult decisions on the spot instead of needing extensive offline model training.
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Mitsubishi Electric's FLEXConnect software features consumer-centric features such as biometric assessment for long-term health tracking and enhanced security with intruder detection and biometric access.
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Suzuki's booth theme was “Impact of the small,” so the Jimny compact pickup took center stage. That vehicle has been on sale in one form or another in Japan since 1961. Also in the booth, an AV from Glydways Inc., a company that Suzuki invested in back in May 2024.
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Sanyuan's two-seat, three-wheel concept vehicle highlights another Taiwanese machine-tool-maker-turned-automotive-supplier.
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Tier IV, an AV tech company, touts its open-source software. That could speed development of technology, but regulators will likely take a close look at security.
- Honda's Saloon 0 EV was a hit at the show for its interesting looks. However, a video that showed off the car's ASIMO-based AI companion drew immediate Black Mirror references.
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Polestar, the luxury EV maker partially owned by Volvo and China's Geely, eliminated the rear window in its latest EV, the Polestar 4. Instead, it uses a Gentex 2.5 megapixel HD rearview camera.
