CES continues to change and adapt, and that spells a solid future for companies with big investments in the technology.

Nvidia has unveiled a new self-driving car platform, teaming up with Mercedes-Benz on a driverless vehicle set to launch in the US very soon.

Mercedes’ software-defined vehicle strategy quietly changes how cars evolve, updating continuously instead of aging by model year. I don’t think software-defined vehicles are interesting because they’re clever.

Mercedes-Benz said on Monday it will launch a new advanced driver-assistance system in the United States later this year that lets its vehicles operate autonomously on city streets under driver supervision.

On its website, Waymo states that "compared to an average human driver over the same distance in our operating cities," its autonomous vehicles have 90% "fewer serious injuries or worse crashes;" 82% "fewer airbag deployment crashes," and 81% "fewer injury-causing crashes."

Autoliv and Tensor just answered that dilemma with something straight out of a concept car: the world’s first foldable steering wheel for production autonomous vehicles. This breakthrough technology will debut in the Tensor Robocar, which is expected to begin production in the second half of 2026.

As vehicles become more software defined and increasingly autonomous, automakers are under pressure to deliver faster AI decision making, accurate sensing,