Cars meet chips in Sin City
A tech show in Las Vegas shows off the bright and shiny future of vehicle technology
SINCE 2008, when General Motors’ then boss delivered a keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), an annual technology jamboree, Las Vegas has offered a glimpse of carmaking’s digital future. This year nearly 200 automotive firms signed up for the event, which got cracking on January 5th. That day GM’s current chief, Mary Barra (pictured), addressed a mostly online, Omicron-avoiding crowd. Like other big carmakers, GM did not show up in person. But Ms Barra’s virtual CES outing signalled how rapidly cars are evolving from oil-filled lumps of metal into devices stuffed with silicon.
This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “Motor Sin City”
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