Kurt'CyberGuy' Knutsson explores the benefits of AI-powered dashcams for your car. Have you ever wished you had a witness to back you up after a car accident or a road rage incident? Or a way to prevent thieves from breaking into your vehicle? Or a device that could call for help if you were in trouble? Well, now you can have all that and more with the iQ, a new artificially intelligent dashcam from Nextbase.

Despite all the stories about big companies bailing out of CES 2022 amidst the latest surge in COVID-19 cases, the consumer electronics show in Las Vegas is still the place to be for robots, autonomous vehicles, smart gadgets, and their inventors -- an opportunity to take stock of what's required to build practical machine intelligence into a consumer product. OrCam and Sonatus are among the companies no longer planning to travel to Las Vegas or announce products at CES, and it's possible some of the other vendors VentureBeat interviewed in advance of the event will also be no-shows. Big names like Microsoft, Google, Intel, Amazon, and T-Mobile backed out in recent weeks. Augmented reality, virtual reality, and the metaverse will be topics of discussion that will have to proceed without Meta (the company formerly known as Facebook). Automotive tech will be a big theme of the event, but General Motors, BMW, and Mercedes-Benz decided not to make the drive (GM's all-digital presence is still supposed to include a video keynote from CEO Mary Barra on Wednesday).