Byton’s screen-filled dashboard will hit the road in 2019. Yikes.

You may remember Byton, which made a bit of a splash at last year’s CES with its concept car that was more futuristic playroom than advanced automobile. 

Its most notable innovation was the UI: Instead of a dashboard, there was a 48-inch curved touchscreen. The interface eschewed traditional buttons in favor of touch (via a touchscreen in the steering wheel), gesture, and voice.

It was also totally nuts. Byton’s high-tech dashboard was an interesting idea, but it was so unlike anything in today’s cars that bringing it to a production model seemed years, if not decades away.

Well, it may be coming a lot sooner than that. At CES 2019, Byton said its cockpit-like driving experience will be coming this year, a key feature of its M-Byte production model. The electric car, which Byton only started designing a little over two years ago, will be “on the road” by the end of 2019, company executives said.  Read more…

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