• USA Today, Detroit News, Friday, January 9, 2009 11:45 AM

BMW is unveiling a sensor system this weekend that will allow emergency responders to quickly assess the likelihood of severe injuries in a crash, Chris Woodyard reports.

"Sensors in all 2009 BMWs except the M3 now can assess car damage and other factors, data that experts say can be crucial to letting arriving firefighters and paramedics know what to expect and where they should be prepared to take the injured," Woodyard writes.

Ford CEO Alan Mulally, meanwhile, told attendees of the Consumer Electronics Show that his company intends to be in the forefront of the digitization of the automobile, Bryce G. Hoffman reports in the Detroit News.

"Those of us in this room are limited only by our collective imagination...." he said in a keynote address. "Together, we can make information ubiquitous."

Mulally unveiled Sync 2.0's voice-controlled turn-by-turn navigation system, and gave sneak peek at a virtual personal assistant named "Eva" that handles e-mail, scheduling and entertainment through conversational commands.

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