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THIS YEAR'S
"SPACE OF
EMOTIVE DRIVING"
EXHIBIT INCLUDED
THE R.E.A.D. SYSTEM,

which uses artificial intelligence to sense a driver's
emotional state through facial expressions, heart
rate and electrodermal activity, and then tailors the
vehicle's cabin environment accordingly.

CEO and Co-founder, Dr. Carsten Breitfeld.
It also has about 80 to 90 percent of the tech
that will be found in BYTON's second vehicle, the K-Byte sedan, which is expected to
be available in 2021, Breitfeld says. A third
vehicle is slated to be released in 2023.
FCA (Fiat Chrysler Automobiles) debuted
the self-driving Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid,
which carries Waymo's self-driving system,
and provided a hands-on demo of the
Uconnect Market concept. FCA also
announced the latest iteration of the
Uconnect connected vehicle platform, showcasing the 12-inch screen that debuted on
the all-new 2019 Ram 1500 pickup, along
with the debut of SiriusXM 360L, SiriusXM's
groundbreaking new platform featuring
thousands of hours of on-demand content
and more than 200 live channels.
Honda followed up on a concept it first
demonstrated at CES 2017. The new Honda
Dream Drive prototype, demoed in a 2019
Passport SUV, melds infotainment, commerce,
services and a rewards program into two
"dashboards" for the driver and passengers.
Dream Drive: Driver is centered on an invehicle payment technology, enabling
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purchases of fuel, food, parking and movie tickets. Dream Drive: Passenger
offers games, movies, music, original comics, travel applications, and remote
control of the vehicle's radio - all from the passenger's mobile device. The
offerings come from various third parties collaborating with Honda, including Visa, MasterCard and PayPal, Atom Tickets, Chevron, The Coffee Bean
and Tea Leaf, Grubhub, Yelp and Parkopedia. Also on display was the Honda
Autonomous Work Vehicle, a prototype off-road vehicle designed by Honda
R&D Americas. It's a derivative of Honda's ATV (all-terrain vehicle) chassis
and emerging self-driving car tech, outfitted with a rail mount system for
attaching accessories and on-board power plug-ins.
Hyundai paraded its Elevate Concept, which it calls an Ultimate Mobility
Vehicle, or UMV, because of its ability to traverse terrain even a NASA rover
may find challenging. Elevate boasts a suspension made of robotic legs that have
five degrees of freedom and an electric actuator, in addition to wheel hub propulsion. Together they allow the vehicle to stand up and literally walk like
either a mammal or a reptile - letting it climb over a five-foot wall or step
over a five-foot chasm, for example. The legs also fold up into a stowed drive
mode, which cuts power to their joints, converting the Elevate into a highway-capable EV. With interchangeable bodies that are always level, Elevate
can be easily converted from a taxicab to a mountainside rescue vehicle.
Hyundai also unveiled the world's first holographic augmented reality
(AR) navigation system, which it developed with WayRay AG, a Swiss
startup. It was exhibited as a proof-of-concept in a 2019 Genesis G80. It
projects a head-up display image through the windshield rather than onto
it, showing navigation information and advanced driver-assistance systems
(ADAS) at a distance of 15 meters from the driver's eyes, including lane
departure and forward collision warnings.
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