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Hyundai has showcased an interesting innovation of the future with the Mobility Vision Concept at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2017) in the US, which envisions the world of up-close and personal mobility, where the car is an extension of your home or vice versa.

The 2017 Consumer Electronics Show was all about mobility this year and keeping with this ongoing theme was Toyota. The Japanese car maker is known for its quirky concepts and this one is no exception. The company introduced the Concept-i - an advanced, artificial intelligence-equipped vehicle that learns and grows with the driver. Like most autonomous vehicles, the Concept-i was designed around the driver.

The Consumer Electronics Show 2017 (CES 2017) is one of the biggest tech gatherings globally and certainly has some of the brightest minds in the business showcasing future technologies. With cars increasingly getting populated with technology, it is BMW showcasing its self driving tech on the new generation 5 Series at the annual show.

Swedish auto manufacture Volvo Cars has announced that the new 2017 range of its 90 series cars will now come with Microsoft's collaborative productivity app, Skype for business. The company claims that the addition of something like Skype for Business will promote in-car productivity and it is the first car manufacturer to offer such a feature.

Google has decided to not directly go venture into production autonomous cars but partner with existing car manufacturers to develop the technology. And right now, Waymo is in talks with Japanese auto giant Honda Motor Co. to integrate its self-driving technology with their vehicles.

Renault has opened China's first experimentation zone for self-driving cars in the country's central city of Wuhan. An electric autonomous driving (AD) car by Renault will operate on a two-km-long lakeside road in the Sino-French Wuhan Ecological Demonstration city in Wuhan.

Audi's newest vehicle-to-infrastructure program, the German manufacturer is now fitting some selective cars that can communicate with the traffic grid in a city. Essentially, the car will be able to pull up to a set of traffic lights and tell the driver when the red light will turn green. This will be done through a timer on the dashboard.

According to a set of recently leaked patent images, Kawasaki appears to have started working on its first all-electric road motorcycle. The patent images reveal that the bike will have a street fighter like stance and it is likely to get the manufacturers latest style cues.