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judging by the cars at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas technology is in the driver seat and even on car roofs that's the solar panel we're able to fully recharge that battery we're just using the Sun this is Ford's c-max a solar energy concept car it pairs with a canopy that serves as a magnifying glass as the Sun traverses the sky we actually have to keep that focus on the solar panels and the way we do that is we actually use the vehicle autonomously to move it actually keeps it concentrator at all times as for drivers in the future well they're optional because driverless vehicles are here the NA vo from induct is a self-driving all-electric shuttle designed with campuses in mind how does the Navajo work it's similar to an elevator but instead of punching the floor you hit the station that you want to go to or the location hit go and start then sit back and enjoy the ride howdy impressed with a preview of its autonomous technology that it hopes to deliver within five years and this car on a public highway is able to use its own radar sonar forward camera and a new laser that's invisible laser light to map out the world around it and drive it up to 40 miles an hour doing its own steering braking and accelerating another key to making self-driving cars a reality is allowing cars to detect each other and avoid crashes for its vehicle to vehicle communication technology does that using Wi-Fi and GPS signals so driving normal through the intersection well as long as the vehicle knows where the other vehicles are if there's any sort of collision scenario that might be occurring then we can provide a warning mercedes-benz showed how cars can communicate with wearable gadgets such as smartwatches and Google glass without doubt cars are now smarter than ever for more CES coverage go to CES cnet.com in Las Vegas I'm Sumi das CNET for CBS News