Not far off: Your car becomes an extension of your brain


  • TECH
  • Tuesday, 06 Mar 2018

HANDOUT - Lots of screens, less buttons: The cockpit trend towards digital controls can be seen in this Byton concept, which features a 1.25-metre-wide and 25-centimetre-high monitor. Photo: Byton/dpa

Technologies ranging from cloud computing to shape-changing dashboards are about to change how vehicle interiors look, feel and work. 

The work at two suppliers' Detroit-area engineering centres focuses on new levels of connectivity and reimagining interiors for a day when an autonomous vehicle's steering wheel may disappear as the instrument panel morphs into a movie screen. 

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