LeEco shows off its LeSee Pro autonomous vehicle in San Francisco

While most of the news coming from LeEco’s event in San Francisco was about new TVs and phones, the company’s CEO, YT Jia made a point to show off his company’s desire to become not just a consumer electronics brand but also an automaker. Unfortunately, the car couldn’t make it onto the stage. The LeSee was in an accident on its way from LA and the LeSee Pro was delayed on its way back from London where it was being used by Michael Bay (Yeah, that Michael Bay) as part of the new Transformers movie.

The car has no set price and no one knows when it will launch. But Jia noted onstage though that he has a very personal reason for building the car. He wants to clear up the smog problem in China and has a “strong desire to bring back our blue skies.” The car eventually made it to the event location but not in time to make it onstage.

To help ease the pain of not seeing the car under a bunch of flashing lights, Jia dropped some news about its partner Faraday Futures. the automaker would be introducing it’s first production car at next year’s CES.

Meanwhile, the company kept pushing its ecosystem offerings that’ll land in the car in addition to the company’s phones, VR headset and TVs. “LeSee is not only a car, LeSee is an ecosystem for mobile connectivity,” said Lei Ding, co-founder and global vice chairman of the LeEco SEE Plan.

But more important than being able to watch Vice in your car, the LeSee Pro also has some unique features like an external display that changes to inform pedestrians and other drivers if the car is in autonomous mode, being driven or is car-share ready.

It also has a magnetic charging system that doesn’t use the traditional level 2 port most other EV’s have. Instead owners can attach the cable to the area forward of the drvier or passenger side door.

Plus when the car is placed in autonomous mode, the steering wheel folds up and retreats into the dashboard.

With the automotive market becoming more crowded every day and established tech companies like Apple struggling to break into the market it’ll be interesting to see how LeEco fares even with partners Aston Martin and Faraday Futures.

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