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Consumer Electronics Show now increasingly featuring tech-laden autos—the Formula E racecar, for instance. AFP PHOTO[/caption]
NOT that the automobile is losing its traditional role as a wheeled contraption that takes people from one place to the other. These days it is merely taking on an added role, and that is as a mobile extension serving the digital lifestyle of consumers who constantly need to connect—or at least, tweet. The result, then, is that cars are getting more high-tech in terms of features on top of propulsion systems. Not surprisingly, carmakers have descended upon the annual orgiastic tech fest that is the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), held in Las Vegas, Nevada, and which draws the planet’s techies in droves. Here are some of the show’s car-centric developments: