Gadgetory

at the Detroit Auto Show next week mercedes-benz is gonna show off a whole new version of their new class model but here at CES we're seeing what the dashboard is gonna look like ahead of time what we have are to twelve point three inch LCDs one for infotainment and one for the instrument cluster and you'll notice down here we have our normal command controller you'll see this in mercedes-benz cars today but we've added a new wrinkle here on the steering wheel we have little touch controllers that let me manipulate all the menus on either screen so I'm on navigation right now if I push this down once I get this nice little control screen for the map app I just move this touch controller to the side I go to my zoom can go up or down just by swiping across here very cool feature now if I hit this home button I get my normal set of icons across the top here which lets me look at radio media phone or my new favorite here is a way to configure the instrument cluster because this is a digital instrument cluster they've included different design schemes so right now we're looking at a classic design we've got a speedometer a tachometer we expect to see that kind of thing but what if I want something low looks a little more sporty I just hit this button here choose sport and it reconfigures the gauges with these yellow numbers which gives it more of a racing feel so that's pretty cool I can also go to this progressive one which just has a single gauge in the middle but that's not all it can also configure information shown on the instrument panel with this left hand controller right now I'm looking at my trip display and I can cycle through different trip information like range eco things like that but even cooler slide it all the way to the left and also adjust what shows up in this right-hand gauge so right now I'm looking at an engine speed regular tachometer but if I don't really care about that I can push this once and get navigation or I can scroll down and get another gauge which is my eco display this actually concentrates on fuel economy so this is the new dashboard we'll see in the mercedes-benz e-class it'll be shown in Detroit for the first time next week