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tain of air throughout the cabin. A soft ambient glow shines through the bold geometricallypatterned floor, creating movement that reflects onto surfaces within the cabin. The Lighting Colour Effect (LCE) can be dimmed or brightened, and the hue can be modified to impact the mood of the interior environment.

When HabaNiro’s part-time level-five autonomous driving system is engaged the steering wheel and instrument panel retract forward to provide more room for the front occupants. Media or other entertainment, such as a movie for a long highway haul, can be displayed on the full-width HUD video system.

HabaNiro features Kia’s new Real-time Emotion Adaptive Driving (R.E.A.D.) System introduced earlier this year at the Consumer Electronics Show. R.E.A.D. can optimise and personalise a vehicle cabin space by analysing a driver’s emotional state in realtime through artificial intelligence-based bio-signal recognition technology. The technology monitors the driver’s emotional state and tailors the interior environment according to its assessment – potentially altering conditions relating to the human senses within the cabin and in turn creating a more pleasurable and safer driving experience.

R.E.A.D. also enables the HabaNiro’s Eye Tracking System (ETS) with 180° rearview video display. The system uses AIbased emotional intelligence to monitor when the driver looks up to the top of the windshield where conventional rear view mirrors are traditionally located. The AI immediately senses the driver’s need to see behind the vehicle and instantly activates the 180° rearview video display.

There are no immediate plans to utilise AI to sense when the driver is hungry and then direct to the nearest drive-through where an order will be waiting, but the technology may someday evolve to make just such a task possible. AI and automation shouldn’t take the joy out of driving, as some auto lovers fear, but should enhance it - anticipating needs so we can concentrate on the driving experience.

Specification

Dimensions

Length: 4430 mm/ 171 inches Height: 1600 mm/ 63 inches Width: 1955 mm/ 77 inches Wheelbase: 2830 mm/ 111.5

inches

e-AWD supplied by two electric

motors, fore and aft

300+ miles* All Electric Range

(AER)

Advanced state of the art battery

technology

Snowdrift Pearl White tri-coat exterior paint Satin Metallic Granite Grey

cladding

Anodised “Lava Red” aero

panel

265/50R20 tires

Heads-Up Display Features:

• Navigation system with augmented reality graphic directions

• 180° rearview video display in place of physical mirrors

• Full windshield entertainment video system with surround sound

• 3D speed readout display

• Full width acrylic touch panel with Sensory Light Feedback (SLF) with Technical Option Sharing System feature provides interaction with HUD AI-based R.E.A.D. technology Eye Tracking System (ETS) enables 180° rearview video display