Mapping out future vehicle cockpits

Game-like navigation visuals Conversational-style voice commands. Contactless biometric sensing. A tidal wave of software code and sensing technologies are being prepped to alter in-vehicle activities.

Two supplier companies, TomTom and Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America (MEAA), recently presented their concept cockpit demonstrators to media at TomTom's North American corporate offices in Farmington Hills, Michigan. A few highlights: