Self-driving hybrid sports car concept has its own helper drone

Although self-driving semi trucks like the Mercedes-Benz Actros and full-size luxury family-hauling SUVs like the Volvo XC90 are important to the world of full-scale vehicle autonomy, so, too, are cars like the Rinspeed "Σtos." Although the concept is vaporware (an announced product that will never be manufactured), it's nonetheless significant because it proves that even stylish driving enthusiasts have a happy place in the cars of the future.

Its sports car styling isn't the most intriguing part of this concept, which will be officially unveiled next January at the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Instead, what is most compelling is its interior "magic," which is how Rinspeed describes it in its press release. Read more...