Toyota unveils the Concept-i, an artificial intelligence enhanced car glowing with personality, shaped by your own personality at CES 2017.

The Consumer Electronic Show has long dedicated a pavilion set aside for automobile technology. But where in years past, the auto hall was intended to showcase numerous auto audio, navigation, and comfort accessories manufacturers, in recent years CES has evolved into another unofficial automobile industry event. Bona fide, newsworthy concept vehicles are unveiled to crowds, some as exciting and imaginative as the Toyota Concept-i.

The gleaming white exterior of Toyota Concept-i is characterized by its low drag-coefficient, elongated egg-shaped body, one dramatically intersected by a sharp boomerang of glass that reveals the lower half of the interior cabin. Gullwing doors offer easy ingress, if not also a histrionic feature. The entire interior is bathed in the glow of lines of blue OLEDs, lights and displays designed for illumination, but also to impart the Concept-i with a personality connected to the core of its central artificial intelligence. The Concept-i was shaped equally by the emerging relationship between drivers and technology as it was by the wind tunnel efficiency goals.
Toyota engineered the Concept-i as an interactive experience between driver and an advanced AI agent they’ve nicknamed ?Yui?. This AI ? whether used in automated or steered manually ? continually and actively monitors the behavi...