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you look good hair is especially i'm a i'm feeling suave but i think it's the ferrari now with white hold on i think it's the fryer at myself hey this is chris from the verge i'm here sitting the passenger seat to my pilot during Golson transportation reporter at The Verge yes and good to be here day 7 no dey 33 yeah of CES 2016 but we're finishing it off on a high note yes area for already California tea with a price of this model is 275 thousand dollars Turner said Odin with a balance this particular one is brand new 345 miles that's like I mean if this car came from LA which is like it did somehow driving it I have to drive in la tinh not LA I have to drive in vegas traffic yeah is less than fun last what no I think we'll be alright today normally we have to go anywhere I'm so sorry you have to drive a ferrari in vegas ground I know it's been rough I mean Mary it's not that bad could be worse basically in Vegas that's what you do you cruise the strip Miami you cruise miami beach yeah here you cruise the strip so strep we're really what else is there to do in Vegas besides gamble and cruise the strip so let's talk about the highs and lows of the show yes long had a boat a lot of both and as we keep saying over and over again this really is becoming an automotive show right yes car cars electronics show car and that was I don't think it's been more true than this year crux yeah and of course it always revolves around three themes there's connected car there's autonomous driving and there's electrification and we hit on all three of those so we get here faraday future hyped event this is the mysterious car company we didn't know where they were getting their money now we do now we do that was the only news so they brought us to this event that was remote from the rest of CES yes long way to unveil this car that is nothing really i mean it's it's a design exercises design it's like could we put it's like when a kid goes to automotive design school they have a senior project yes and that's their senior project yep and apparently when you are a world-famous designer after making gorgeous supercars you continue making senior projects the money is real the car as far as we know if not is no well well that from 01 is it anyway yeah maybe they have a real car somewhere yeah so that happened and then the next day for had some announcements right yes if Ford had their press conference in the morning right 730am prank you forward we appreciate that guys and they they announced they are tripling the size of their autonomous research fleet this year from 10 to 30 cars yeah they claim it'll make them the largest they'll have the largest autonomous research fleet of any automaker yes an automaker right they never specifically said automaker because Google has a few more cars than that I think people as 50 yeah something like that between california and n texas right oh man out support for carplay and android auto yeah i'm lee and that's good took it well considering the history of Ford's infotainment system it was about time yeah via the Microsoft Sync was not the best effort yeah the puddle filled road to yes way and Android Ottawa but we have moved on we've moved on we've moved on to other bigger and better and now we've got car place ok let's go really go to that you wrote about this they're adding or they're experimenting with Amazon echo yes they have ideas for the future of connected cars yes and they said they had things that they were working on but they weren't ready to release yet and one of those was was connecting to amazon echo and so you could do things like in your house tell your amazon echo to start your car so if you want to get it warmed up in the wintertime right or tell me the range of my car which is important for electric cars you know how much charge does it have Ford did not announce something that was rumored forward and out did not announce yes Ford did not announce that they would be building cars with Google which had been heavily rumored and supposedly well sourced and oh my goodness this is coming this is going to be the big news of CES Google and for going to build cars together and nothing not a word sofort happened and then GM was the next day yes GM blew it out here yeah star of the show yeah that will the crazy thing about that is that we knew it was coming we knew it was coming we knew what they were going to launch we knew what they were gonna launch so GM showed the sheva the production version of the chevy volt which debuted as a gas car at the detroit auto show laughs here yes so nine months later ten months later whatever yeah load actually close to 12 at what it's like to be one week that's true yes so they they showed the production version of the bowl which is let me give you a rundown of the basics it's a it's a small EV with a promise 200 plus mile range for around thirty thousand dollars after tax rates yes federal tax for a federal tax breaks your state may have more your state may have more fun around 30 grams and the reason that's a big deal is because the only high range the eds that come within an approximate range of a gas car are really expensive yes and there's really one that's there's Tesla so yes your car is lovely and yeah so weird it's going to be very difficult to record a show so people rubbing we're the annoying guy in Fast and Furious we are the annoying guy and Ferrari yeah only we're not going to race them because we have better gets the strip and where why are you gonna go I'm gonna get to the red light faster than you yeah now yeah in a drag racing on the strip going going full tokyo drift on the strip right now would be explored now for am baby for a maybe now now we'll bring it back out uh anyway so the bolt yes new is coming we knew it was coming i had a chance to drive it briefly on before before before was announced because you're a baller because i'm a baller yeah that's correct and you drove it and what did you think I drove it and the way I put it in my article and I believe this to be true is that it is very unremarkable it doesn't stand out in any way it's just and that's it other than seeming like a solid car it's a solid car it's a practical car and that's what the EV industry needs right now is a car that can say hey we can be your primary car like this is a livable yet to make a comparison it's it's like corolla s and it's boringness yeah which is fine because Toyota selves a boatload of Corollas right and they're a great car and so that's pretty high praise I think right and we'll see if it arrives as as prey as claimed that's right but I think I think they're doing pretty good i drove it as well and I agree it's you know it's it's perfectly adequate perfectly that's a good weekend and you know if it goes 200 miles for a lot of people that's going to be way better than 85 miles you get in the leaf i thinkI think yeah any of the Denny of those cars and fine and the infotainment system is is unique to the bowl yes it's made by LG they're very proud of it on behalf of GM and I think it's really good I think it's better than any entertainment system GM's ever made that's not saying a lot but it's pretty good and it supports car cleaning I found the classic rock road trip playlist oh no no no so dr. GM I think we have BMW Toby also i've had a busy CES BMW had a busy CES BMW really like CES they they've been coming out here for years they'd run some wacky stuff here they did the self drifting car a couple years ago I'm so disappointed that I missed that oh it was so much fun they last year they did the self-parking i3 and the collision avoidance i three and then this year you had a chance to demo it yeah they had what they called the eyes vision future interaction concept which is an i8 spyder yeah it's hard that doesn't exist by the way you can't buy one they took a nice fighter and and did a bunch of producing stuff in there yes they did so it the last couple years of CES and really of car shows in general have been car companies talking about how autonomous cars are going to be here real soon now and it seems that this is actually true now and so what car companies are doing is thinking about rather than the technology to make the car drive itself it's now focused on the driver what you're going to do while the car is ferrying you down the highway right okay so as the thing called air touch which is sort of like a how would I just it's an iPad but instead of touching the screen you just sort of wave your hand around like you are touching an ipad 4 10 there's an iPad and you can swipe swipe back and forth you can sort of move up and down and then there's a button on the steering wheel that you press to make selections so it's their vision for what you might do and it's a concept they may or may not make it but it's pretty neat and it's nice to see them thinking outside the box and what I'm most excited about about the this feature is that it means that autonomous cars really are close and so did the system feel like natural to you is it easy to use yeah so there were there were two ways to use it one there was a line of cameras tiny tiny cameras running around the edge of the dash and you could wave your hand in front of it and they would see you and you could do that or down in the center console where the eye dr would be on a standard BMW you could wave your hand magically over the leather armrest and there were sensors in it and it would notice that your hand was moving around and you could swipe back and forth with that and I suspect that's the one that will make it to the production car when the air touch it's cool but it's a little gimmicky and I'm not a huge fan of holding your hand up in the air and doing things right but if you keep it down there and use it that's a little bit more natural and probably where they're going to end up and I should point out that last year BMW also previewed the gesture control system that ended up in the seventh series that they launched later in 2015 yes so later this year I believe we're supposed to be getting a new five series 5 series so maybe you see something like that yeah I think coming together definitely got a little loose there how to do that at least once it is in in sport mode which I'm sure has some great name in Italian and then it's somewhere around that point in the week it all became a blur yes because we were getting for know you know we have what we still have is Vito Oh vida we got v-dub we didn't talk about v-dub we got me dub with the hoodie yeah will you Chris will you be my buddy oh I see your buddy know what won't be my buddy I'm sorry is the buddy its I like the look but it's a little too kia soul for me oh and the interior the interior ulta money I understand it's a concept yeah but doesn't it doesn't do it there kind of is no interior it's like it's very concept they've got a big screen thing which okay fine I'm sure that's the future big screens and cars as Tesla has proven yeah big screens and cars of the future but he I don't know I don't know about that car they sure made a big deal out of it they made a very big deal out of it and you know what and the press responded the presser so you know it had cool stuff from my vantage point when i was doing our v-dub live blog I can see the front of the car which has LED lights on it and they made it look like a slot machine yeah which was pretty cool yeah that's definitely a feature that should never come to a production vehicle definitely not a Department of Transportation recruit no I don't think so and definitely completely distracting yeah is cool as a concept it was great yep but uh yeah don't so the back right buddy's cool let's talk background about yeah it it was teased before CES as being a new electric long-range concept for Volkswagen yes there were rumors flying that it was a microbus throwback and indeed it is time ever it's inspired by inspired by the microbus and I would argue that it likee I you know I'm not a MicroBot bus like fanatic personally so I can't speak to it that much but I just think a lot of microphones five from it no it's it's the microbus the whole point of microphones you could live in yeah you could pop the top and camp and have your grill and have your you know hippie girls in bikinis hanging out by the beach or the lake or wherever and this one doesn't have that this is a as they call it the social car if which is basically sexy yeah it's your buddy it's basically an excuse to use some buzz words right so i don't know i don't i'm not sure what they were doing there but that's okay thanks for watching that's been our CES 2016 wrap up live from the Ferrari California T on the Las Vegas Strip I'm talking also i'm chris sigler and to get more on CES visit the burg com or subscribe to us for more awesome videos like this at youtube.com slash the life of TV this is basically what the jeremy clarkson deals with all day i can see why he punched his user I wouldn't punch any of those guys except max they're kicking some thick