Starting today through February 14 you can vote for your favorite vehicle that we have featured at CES. Did the eye-catching Bentley strike your fancy or did the updated Jeep put you into another gear? It’s all up to you. We will announce the fan favorite on Tuesday, February 18.
So once again here is the full list of our CES Cars of Fame blog posts. Have one last look and cast your vote:
- The latest — technology concept car based on a Mercedes-Benz CLA54 AMG
- The sound machine — technology concept car for acoustics based on a Kia Soul
- The ultimate show-me car — technology concept car based on a Bentley Continental GT
- The most jazzed-up Jeep ever to hit CES — reference vehicle based on a Jeep Wrangler
- A Porsche you could talk to — technology concept car based on a Porsche 911 Carrera
- A true production car — BMW Z4 Roadster with QNX-powered ConnectedDrive
- The first-ever QNX technology concept car to hit CES — LTE Connected Car based on a Toyota Prius
Of the listed concepts, I voted for the most recent (Mercedes CLK).
ReplyDeleteI did like the larger screens with more refined presentations of graphics/information. I did not like all the hard buttons, there were too many. If it's a hard button, it should be worth memorizing the location+function to be toggled when driving without looking.
So my heart was split between the CLK demo, and the Bentley demo which had the genius hybrid physical dials/buttons (rear DLP, optical encoder) that could be designated on the fly to fulfill the relevant context.
The Audi FPK demo posted to the QNX youtube channel represents a nice progression of synthesis between hardware and software.
It's obvious that you can do more (more information, more controls) with less (fewer buttons, fewer single purpose hardware components). The challenge and marker of successful implementations is making all of this easier, so that it gets used.
Good points, Johnny. Especially agree with your last one. You've got make it easy -- and, as it turns out, that can be very hard to do. :-)
Delete- Paul