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so we're here in new york to check out the karma rivero aliso edition it's one

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of 15 in the world has 981 foot pounds

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of torque and costs an eye watering 145 000 which is great and all but like

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we're Linus tech tips why the heck are we here

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oh there we go so the back is filled with awesome prototype tech so let's

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take a look at what all of this does and a big thanks to dts and photo nation for

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sponsoring this video

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if you feel like you've seen this car before well you wouldn't be wrong that's

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because both karma and the rivero are heirs to fisker automotive's karma a car

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about as troubled as the period it was born into major financial institutions

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have teetered on the edge of collapse and some have failed as a result our

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entire economy is in danger the company was plagued by several engineering and

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production challenges legal battles supply issues reliability shortcomings

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and became of political football for the guys in washington and the financial

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troubles that came as a result of all that forced fisker to shut its doors in

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2013. but for all the things that got wrong fisker did get some things right

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the accelerated development process of the fisker karma generated quite a few

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technological breakthroughs and the core design of the car remains a thing of

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beauty even 11 years after its original unveiling so it's with those

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considerations that automotive supplier juan xiang group bought what remained of

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the original company in 2014 a mere year

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after having scooped up fisker's then battery manufacturer and then rebranded

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it karma so while the rivero may look much the same as its predecessor it's a

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completely different car under the surface everything from the wiring

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harness to the solar panel roof down to the powertrain is different with some

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less obvious stuff starting with the fm radio

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okay wait hold on okay so this came about as part of karma's collaboration

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with dts and it's actually cooler than it sounds so the prototype radio in here

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has album artwork and a like button

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well okay but spotify already has that

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at which point we realized well why don't we expect this from radio the

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radio experience is basically decades

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behind with programmable stations still being a feature

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and the thing is some eighty percent of drivers apparently still rely on it for

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entertainment in their car so with dts connected radio your car is able to use

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an ip connection to download metadata for digital and analog radio stations so

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you can get album artwork song titles and artists the ability to like and

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share songs and of course my personal favorite the ability to see exactly

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what's playing on all the stations at once but maybe the station you landed on

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is playing some really soft soothing music you're driving down the highway

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it's late at night maybe you're coming home from the airport and the incredibly

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comfortable seats of the rivero ease you into a slumber

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your eyes close this

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is the situation where you want the photonation dms or driver monitoring

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system it'll step in and make some loud noises to wake you up so under the

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steering wheel we've got an ir camera that can tell the car if your eyes are

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open where they're looking and even take a guess at what your mood is

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now currently this just makes the car get mad when you look away from the road

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and plays a cheerful song if you look sad

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though in fairness they only started integrating this about four months ago

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but in the future this data is going to be crucial for self-driving vehicles

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so the dms will give the car information during autonomous operation so if you

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fall asleep it can park on the side of the road or if it needs to hand over

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control to the driver from autonomous mode it can make sure the driver is

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actually looking at the road and isn't terrified before giving them control

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and the eye tracking and head position monitoring has another benefit that is

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implemented today a changeable fov backup camera so this allows for the

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rear view camera to naturally update where it's pointing based on where your

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head is in the car this would actually be beneficial in

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most cars i mean you really can see a lot using the system but in the rivero

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it really shines since the swoopy rear of this vehicle was clearly

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designed with looking cool in mind not

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rear visibility maybe the most impressive part of all of these demos is

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that they've been implemented in just four weeks on completely automotive

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grade hardware like if we saw this demo running on a tablet

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that would be pretty interesting but these are all real things that have been

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implemented that you can expect to start showing up in cars that you might be

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able to actually afford in 2020 so in

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the trunk first we've got power for everything 12 volt and 5 volt to run the

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electronics and the amp this black box here provides the connected radio and

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the processing is done by these socs from texas instruments and all of this

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can be pretty easily condensed down to a single chip

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like not a single board a single chip on

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that board giving automakers easy options for smarter cars in the future

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so thanks to dts and photo nation for bringing our team out to this demo day

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you don't get many opportunities to drive around a luxury vehicle like this

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when well when you dress like us

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