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Automakers will focus on self-driving technology at CES 2017
The 2017 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas opens to the public on January 5 but will be preceded by press and preview days on January 3 and 4. This year’s show will span across 2.5 million square feet of floor space spread across multiple venues and feature 3,800 exhibitors.
“One of the big themes is going to be connectivity,” Jeff Joseph, senior vice president for communications and strategic relationships at the Consumer Technology Association, which hosts CES. “For example, Internet of Things, vehicle-to-vehicle communication, voice-activated communication with things like Alexa and Google Home and higher-value content – 4K-produced content that you can move from device to device.”
Faraday Future
In the past few years, more and more car companies and automotive suppliers have used CES to showcase their technological prowess, particularly in the area of self-driving cars. Faraday Future says it will reveal its first production car via a live stream beginning at 6:00 pm on January 3. The all electric vehicle appears to be a crossover SUV based on teaser videos the company has released ahead of the show.
Hyundai Ioniq
Hyundai says it will be providing show goers rides in its new Ioniq equipped with autonomous driving technology. In a preview earlier this year, C/Net RoadShow reporter Antuan Goodwin found the self driving Ioniq competent if a little boring. The car never exceeds the speed limit, for instance, and deals with pedestrians and turns within city limits with painfully slow precision.
Chrysler Pacifica
Chrysler is expected to introduce a battery electric version of its Pacifica minivan at CES 2017. The car is not expected to be available for sale before 2018 and little is known at this time about battery size, range, or other specifications. Chrysler has just started selling a plug-in hybrid version of the Pacifica in the US. 100 of those cars have been modified at a separate facility in Detroit to use Google’s self driving technology. Google has recently announced that it is no longer considering manufacturing its own self-driving car.
Honda NeuV
Honda will bring a “box on wheels” concept electric car to the Las Vegas show. Called the NeuV, the car can recognize the occupants’ mood and adjust lighting, visual displays, and driving characteristics to match. It will also showcase vehicle to vehicle communication systems designed to speed the flow of traffic in congested urban areas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-XMA6YAh5c
Rinspeed
Not to be outdone in the goofiness department, Rinspeed will present its highly unusual and totally unique Oasis concept. The car is intended to answer the question, “What will drivers and passengers do with their time when self driving cars become the norm?” One answer, says Rinspeed, is an onboard garden that occupants can tend to while under way.
MobilEye
MobilEye, Tesla’s former partner for autonomous driving systems, has linked up with Delphi, a major component supplier to the automotive industry, to create a self driving platform that will be marketed to various car makers. The two companies will offer show visitors a 6.3 mile long test drive of their Centralized Sensing Localization and Planning (CSLP) automated driving system. It won’t be production ready until 2019, but the two companies insist it is “the first turnkey, fully integrated automated driving solution with an industry-leading perception system and computing platform.”
https://vimeo.com/193388153
Keynote speakers at CES 2017 will include Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, who will talk about “the latest in artificial intelligence, self-driving cars, VR, and gaming.” Carlos Ghosn, CEO of Renault-Nissan, is also scheduled to give a keynote address.
CES is about more than automobiles. New advances in televisions, smartphones, and personal assistants like Google Home and Amazon Echo will be featured as well as advances in gaming and virtual reality technology. No one could see, touch, and experience everything that every exhibitor will bring to the show.
We will attempt to keep you informed about new technologies that will apply to the automotive and mobility industries, beginning with the first press conferences next Tuesday, January 3. Like us on Facebook and get a behind the scenes look from CES 2017.
Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) reported its earnings for the first quarter of 2026 on Wednesday afternoon. Here’s what the company reported compared to what Wall Street analysts expected.
The earnings results come after Tesla reported a massive beat on vehicle deliveries for the second quarter, delivering 489,126 vehicles and building 451,758 cars during the three-month span.
This was a major shock for those on Wall Street as they anticipated somewhere around 400,000 deliveries for the quarter, and showed Tesla still has plenty of demand for its vehicles around the world and in the U.S. despite losing the $7,500 EV Tax Credit last year.
Tesla Q2 2026 Earnings Results
- Non-GAAP EPS – $0.33 reported vs. $0.53 expected
- Revenues – $28.236 billion reported vs. $26.4 billion expected
- Free Cash Flow- -$1.092B
- Profit -$ 4.751B
Tesla (beat/missed) analyst expectations, so the market response to the company’s quarter is what we will look for next.
Tesla shares closed today down just over 1 percent, trading at $374.01.
In the past, it has been anyone’s guess with what Tesla shares will do after they report earnings. Strong quarters have resulted in sharp drops, while lackluster quarters have seen the stock shoot up considerably.
Tesla will hold its Q2 2026 Earnings Call in about 90 minutes at 5:30 p.m. on the East Coast. Remarks will be made by CEO Elon Musk and other executives, who will shed some light on the investor questions that we covered earlier this week.
You can stream it below. Additionally, we will be doing our Live Blog on X and Facebook.
Q2 2026 Earnings Call https://t.co/zZS6ii2TWK
— Tesla (@Tesla) July 22, 2026
Tesla is about to make parking in busy parking lots at businesses and other points of interest less stressful than ever by allowing drivers more control over where they park and how, CEO Elon Musk confirmed on X.
Tesla has been working to improve the parking performance of vehicles utilizing the Full Self-Driving suite, but now it is looking to add more customization, allowing drivers to choose the specific space they park in, but also potentially the orientation the car pulls into the spot:
It’s coming soon
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 21, 2026
Musk has reiterated on X twice over the past several weeks that Tesla is working to make things with the FSD suite based more on the driver’s specific preferences and behaviors that were seen in past drives.
Essentially, it sounds like if you tend to park away from a business to avoid other vehicles, Tesla FSD will soon recognize that preference of yours and start parking further away as well. Additionally, the prospect of assigned parking spaces has been something many owners have voiced concerns about.
Living in a community with assigned parking spaces makes using FSD incredibly difficult as it will rarely park in the correct spot when there are so many to choose from. This is also pertinent in work settings where there are sometimes assigned parking spaces.
The updates to Tesla’s Full Self-Driving suite in terms of listening to driver preferences with parking are also extending to routing. Tesla announced yesterday that with the release of its 2026 Summer Update, it was adding Automatic Navigation and Preferred Routes:
Tesla reveals 2026 Summer Update with crazy fixes to Nav and more
Tesla has always maintained the idea that any human input is bad input, and that, ideally, Tesla Full Self-Driving will always make the right decision. Of course, this is all in theory, but the issue is that so many of Tesla’s interventions have come because it does something that is not necessarily wrong, but perhaps not what the driver would prefer.
Taking these preferences into account will help Tesla alleviate some of the potentially unnecessary interventions that drivers perform.
Tesla is starting to prepare for the launch of the Optimus robot in its smartphone app, new coding strings show. Elon Musk has referred to Optimus as what will be the greatest-selling product of any kind of all time, and now, Tesla is getting ready for its launch.
Tesla’s smartphone app had several first-time mentions of the Optimus program, according to Tesla App Updates, who intially reported on the appearance. Here’s what they found:
A Dedicated “Robot” Phone Key Authentication
Tesla is working on a Bluetooth Low Energy, or BLE, authentication that is specifically for robots. This does not only apply to Optimus, though, as Robotaxi, which is Tesla’s autonomous ride-hailing platform, might also identify vehicles within the fleet as robots as well.
Tesla shows rapid teardown of Model S and X lines, paving the way for Optimus at Fremont
Essentially, pairing your phone as a key to anything Tesla identifies as a robot to a “whitelist” of authorized devices. Optimus, Robotaxi, or other products that fall into this category will only respond if the device trying to communicate with it is authorized.
This is a great security feature that will eliminate at least face-value and low-level threats.
Home Data Collection and System Alerts
This appears to be somewhat of a neural network for Optimus within your house. There will be a dedicated screen that asks for consent to collect both video and spatial data while Optimus performs in-home tasks. Everything from vacuuming, washing dishes, dusting, and other activities will be tracked.
There will also be a comprehensive alert system that will track everything from low battery to mechanical issues.
Other Changes
Most of the changes tracked in this particular app update are related to Tesla’s 2026 Summer Update, and include things such as image assets for new features, a preview of the new custom wraps feature, and other unique features.
You can check out our coverage on what is included with the 2026 Summer Update here:
Tesla reveals 2026 Summer Update with crazy fixes to Nav and more
Tesla (TSLA) Q2 2026 earnings results: miss on EPS, beat on revenue
Tesla is about to make parking in busy lots less stressful than ever
