Byton and Aurora Are Building a Self-Driving Electric SUV

Two of the most intriguing, young companies in the molting auto industry have joined forces to produce a sleek, screen-stuffed, self-driving SUV by 2020. And it'll be fully electric, too, with a 300-mile range that matches the most long-legged of Teslas. It's a bold ambition to be sure, but on paper, not such a crazy one. The car bits come from Byton, the newly launched Chinese automaker that showed its first prototype at CES last month. The ride comes stuffed with a 49-inch screen and a bevy of buzzy keywords: connected, shared, transformative, and above all, smart.