The president of Sony Honda is allowed to drive an electric car on-stage with a DualSense yet I'm not allowed to play games while I drive. Typical

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Sony Honda Afeela concept EV driven onstage with a DualSense 5 controller

Or did he? It’s difficult to imagine that, given that the eyes of the world’s media were watching, and that the presentation space was jam-packed with journalists eager to get a glimpse of Sony’s latest products, the company or indeed the venue would allow one of its senior executives to actually control an electric vehicle with a gaming controller.

I mean, imagine the insurance forms you’d need to fill out, or the claim the company would have to make if it all went wrong. A sizable car accidentally rolling off the stage into the crowd just doesn’t bear thinking about, so surely all involved would have made sure that the demo was as safe as it could possibly be.

The car in question was Sony and Honda’s new EV concept, the Afeela, and while the car itself has plenty of the expected EV features (via The Verge) like all-wheel drive, two 180kW motors and a substantial 91kWh battery, it was the entertainment features that made it something of a stand out feature of the show.

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For safety’s sake, it’s highly likely that what we were watching was instead the car performing a carefully orchestrated pre-programmed movement, and we’d expect that many rehearsals would be carried out to make sure that no-one present was at risk from an accidental slip of the finger and a terrible outcome.

For what it’s worth, Kawanishi did point out that the controller demonstration was purely for the purposes of the showcase and not an expected feature, but if the aim was to catch the media’s attention, it certainly succeeded.

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