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Lotus Theory 1 is a high-powered electric sports car with haptics and robot textiles

Will sports cars live on in the electric age?

It’s a visual aid for Lotus’ new Digital, Natural, and Analogue (DNA — get it) design principles on which it plans to base its performance vehicles for the modern era. Lotuswear also encapsulates all the other modern technology hardware and software bits of the vehicle, including an OLED screen, artificial “speed” sounds, interior noise-canceling and immersive audio. It’s also Level 4-capable with self-driving hardware that includes four lidar sensors and six HD cameras, as well as an Nvidia Drive computer platform for real-time processing around the car.

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