"This is probably a demo of automatically adjusting digital headlights. Oncoming traffic is detected and tracked by the Audi and it will dim it's headlights exactly and only where that oncoming car is so as not completely blind the oncoming driver. Neat stuff."

"I'm both biologist and designer. [Worked in anatomy for 9 years, then switched into designing medical devices - conveniently, filters for critical care ventilation most recently.] Yup, it's the rising pressure of the exhaled CO2 which will, in turn, raise the blood CO2; blood pressure, breathing rate, heart rate etc until everything logically concludes. "Hypercapnia" is the term. In this case a wearers level of distress will become pretty evident so as long as they can get out of the things easily I guess they're OK. At least the wearer will be safely padded while having their inevitable seizure. Definitely not for fashion amateurs. More importantly, they just look like giant laproscopic hysterectomy simulators."

"Crumbs to that, we still have our third eyelid! Look in the nasal corner of your eye. That would be the "medial angle" if you, like me, were a medical illustrator then taught anatomy in a medical school for 9 years before designing medical devices. You'll see that little pink bump,  the "lacrimal caruncle". If you look closely, between that bump and the proper white of your eye, the "sclera", you'll see a thin folded membrane of conjuctiva. The Plica semilunaris. That, most people in the biz consider, is the vestigial protective third membrane. For us, it was probably for diving - a long with a handful of mammalian reflexes we still have around cold water immersion. Knowledge."

"Not really a fan of any device that takes responsibility away from the driver because then you get a driver who is, by turn, less responsible. So by that definition, definitely no to lane assist. I'm still trying to weigh if the collision avoidance braking is really that good a thing. I'll bet it prevents accidents, but it's a bit concerning particularly if a driver comes to depend on it or builds a habit around it and then, one day, it's not there or they drive a vehicle that does not have it. That won't end well. I'm sure the insurance companies love it, but then cars shouldn't be designed primarily for insurance companies. I don't mind the rear camera, but then I think it's becoming a necessity as the rear windscreen of many vehicles seems to be getting smaller and a less usable viewport, and there's an increasing number of older drivers who can't quite twist all the way around to see when reversing. I've rented a couple of vehicles that do have side mirrors that tilt down when reversing - rather handy, like it. I do like the cruise control. On a long drive it's great not have one foot glued into one 120km/hr throttle position. Love self dimming rear view and, as another post mentioned, would love to see similar in the side mirrors. Self leveling headlights are nice also. That's a key difference between European vehicles and North American vehicles (aside from the majority of one continent being manual (love!) and the other being of automatic transmissions (loath!)) is that the little dimmer dial on the dash below left of the steering wheel just dims/brightens the gauges on N.American vehicles; while the same switch on a Euro vehicle raises/lowers the head lamps according to load and road. I wish it was available in N.American vehicles, particularly with the prevalence of pick-ups and SUV's (if ever a class of vehicle needed to adjust for load and road: picks-up and SUV's) where those hateful bright blue headlights are right at the eye height of anyone driving anything else. Again, with the older drivers, those blue headlights are brutally dazzling/blinding on the eyes for actual biomedical light physics reasons. Generally I think we're designing cars so that people can be less responsible behind the wheel, and I'm not sure what the motivation is. On one hand, self driving cars will be fantastic and a worthy thing to strive for. On the other hand, we're constantly proving through a combo of stupidity, negligence and design-instilled over-confidence that we, as humans, are not actually up to the task of operating vehicles without these aids."

"Sigh, European models... Maybe the hitch comes with a manual transmission? Probably has the auto-stop/start to cut emissions when you're idling too. And probably has the more important headlight leveling knob where we have the kind-of-useless instrument cluster brightness knob. Sigh. "