Sony Corporation unveiling its first passenger car in history at the CES 2020 – and a good one, by the looks of it – definitely caused plenty of agitation and rumors. But whether you started dreaming of owning a Sony-branded car or not, it simply doesn’t matter anymore.
Izumi Kawanishi, the Project Manager and creator of the Sony Vision-S Concept, as well as the leader of the company’s R&D branch dedicated to robots, said that Sony never intended to enter the automobile market with its prototype. According to him, the car was merely meant to provide a contribution to the evolution of transports as we know it today, just like the introduction of the smartphone revolutionized the industry around a decade ago.
If anything, the Sony Vision-S demonstrated to us the high level of technological sophistication the Japanese electronics company is apparently capable of. Among other things, it came equipped with 33 scanners and sensors for autonomous movement and had plenty of displays in the cabin, as well as a multi-channel audio system with some satellites built straight into the seats.