This is the time of year when the news about technology in cars spills out in droves. That’s because the CES expo in Las Vegas took place last week, and now the North American Auto Show is taking place in Detroit this week. (I always go to the first one, then sleep for a few days and don’t ever go to the second one.) Here are a few of the tech highlights to track for this coming year.

1. Ford autonomous driving in winter

In case you haven’t been following all of the news in self-driving cars, the one hurdle is that almost every test — from Tesla to Google to Magna — involves reading lane markings. Ford recently demonstrated how powerful lasers and sensors could map an entire urban area even in winter and still drive autonomously without any lane markings.

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