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autonomous cars ruled the road at CES 2017 everyone from BMW to Ford to Hyundai showed off their self-driving car technology it knows as a crosswalk here so it had stopped and shown even a little yellow there it is that says okay when you see that it means I've detected a pedestrian and I'm making a decision based on that that says I'm stopped for that reason so now we're all clear it goes on its own you're a car company and you don't have an autonomous vehicle offering you're gonna go the way of a lot of tech companies that didn't keep up with paradigm shifts in their industry in the future the controls of your car may not be on your dashboard they may be in the air BMWs concept car has Holograms to start the car play music or even shop but with tactile feedback so it feels like you're pressing a button so these three components work in tandem so when you see for example a start button now you can very slowly with a single finger dive into this and you fail the haptic feedback each seat has its own speakers built into the headrest and because only the driver can see the hologram video calls could be more private you take the call the audio is switched off I continue to listen to Beethoven until you listen to the conversation you were having in addition to being your ride cars are becoming a sort of remote control for your smart home Hyundai and Ford have incorporated virtual assistants like Amazon's Alexa and Google home so your car can connect with your smart home devices Alexa set the thermostat to 68 degrees setting thermostat heat to 68 perfect so this actually communicated to my home in Michigan from Las Vegas so the temperature of my house is now going to go to 68 degrees doesn't matter it doesn't matter yes one over the internet yeah yeah if you're not driving your car what are you doing inside your car automakers are envisioning a new place to work or relax Microsoft is working on putting Skype and office features into cars to help with productivity because what the assistant does the assistant knows about you and about you and when it finds in the point to meeting for example tonight a PM with Susan do you want to book a restaurant yes show me the best restaurants here are the top three restaurants close to your destination Toyota unveiled a concept car that is a feature called chauffeur mode which reclines the driver's seat sets mood lighting and even blows cool air on your neck and you should even that's an air blowing in my back to Faraday future hopes to be the car for now the electric car maker that wants to compete against Tesla unveiled its FF 91 production model which Faraday says will hit the road in 2018 for more on CES 2017 go to cnet.com in Las Vegas I'm Kara Tsuboi cnet.com for CBS News