Check out the latest Mercedes-Benz F 015

Mercedes-Benz unveiled its F 015 Luxury in
Motion research car, a machine that could make
even the happiest of Maybach owners a bit green.
The serene sedan is packaged as the
quintessential self-driving car, where you and three
guests dip into caviar while autonomous Jeeves
makes all the driving decisions of consequence.
The F 015 contains swiveling front chairs, so front
and rear passengers can face one other; barn-style
doors to ease access; and motion-gesture
monitors aplenty. Under the skin lies a hybrid-
electric fuel-cell powertrain allowing a claimed
1,100km (684 miles) of zero-emissions cruising.
The F 015 hints at a time when drivers are
removed from the equation, and vehicles become
what Dieter Zetsche, chairman of Mercedes’ parent,
Daimler, calls a "mobile living space".
Harman gets personal
The audio-component designer debuted a
personalised sound system for each passenger in
a vehicle, called the Independent Sound Zones, or
ISZ. The system harnesses the car's original
speakers, along with additional speakers in the
headrests and headliner, to deliver only the audio
each passenger desires. With ISZ, a driver could
take a hands-free call while other passengers
continued listening to music, or hear navigation
cues while everyone else follows a movie. Though
the technology is already in demo form, it may
take years for it to appear in cars, owing to the
lengthy implementation processes required.