Overview
- New passenger-vehicle unveilings were scarce in Las Vegas, with industry voices saying Shanghai and Munich’s IAA now matter more for car launches as BYD surpasses Tesla in sales.
- Nvidia introduced Alpamayo, an autonomous-driving model designed to add humanlike reasoning to perception for more natural on-road decisions.
- Ford set 2028 for eyes-off, hands-free driving on its Universal EV Platform and outlined a unified high-performance compute center for infotainment, ADAS, audio and networking.
- A Lucid–Nuro–Uber team previewed a robotaxi, underscoring the shift from traditional car reveals to software-defined and driverless services.
- CTA warned potential tariffs could sharply lift U.S. prices, projecting increases of 31% for smartphones, 34% for laptops and up to 69% for game consoles, even as consumer standouts included LG’s W6 Wallpaper OLED, Samsung’s 130-inch Micro RGB TV, LG’s CLOiD home robot and Lego’s Smart Play bricks.