News Summary

• We still have no information on price or battery size, but we do have two more years until this car hits the road, so price will surely come later.Sony is focusing on its electronics expertise by highlighting the car’s sensing and infotainment systems..
• Don’t just blow buzzwords at us.Yes, being software-defined is neat and enables new experiences, and can even make a car better over time (I’ve seen this with my early Tesla Model 3, which is a better car today than it was when I first took delivery)..
• Like just about every electric car coming out these days, the AFEELA will have a wide array of sensors for potential autonomous driving tasks.And inside the car, Sony thinks that it can provide better infotainment due to its experience in consumer entertainment..
• It looked relatively refined and reasonable and didn’t make as many outlandish claims as some others might have.At the time, we thought there was actually a decent chance this might happen, and each year since then, Sony has inched a step closer to actually releasing this car..
• Going into it, I didn’t expect much, since Sony has already shown off the car so many times and, frankly, it doesn’t need to show it off seven times before it comes out.But the AI stuff just leaves a bad taste in my mouth..
• It potentially unshackles us from the previous yearly update cycle which has encouraged overconsumption of vehicles for more than half a century.But hunting dinosaurs in your car and letting creators spy on your vehicle data is just weird..