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Just as has become the case with pretty much all high tech devices, cars and much of the technology inside them, are seemingly growing new functionality every year, if not more frequently. Take radar detectors for example. Not only are they linking to smart phones but now both iCobra's iRadar and Escort's Live communities are using that link to link drivers so that they can warn each other where cops are.

“Anytime your detector gets shot with a laser, you're going to get the alert, so you get the alert in your vehicle and then it's going to pass up to the network and everyone else in the Escort Live nation is going to get the alert,” Ron Gividen said.

Cars are also, just like phones, adding functionality through apps. Joining companies like Ford with its SYNC technology, Mercedes-Benz's mbrace2 adds social networking to the car, things like Twitter and Facebook to go along with music and informational apps.

Mercedes also showing off in this futuristic cube looking thing a futuristic way you may interact with all the information you get in your car in a kinda Minority Report style where you touch it, grab it, flick it.

“The DICE is a gesture based simulator Dynamic and Intuitive Control Experience and you'll get a feel for how in the future consumers in the automobile will interact with different obstacles in the car, different information through gesture rather than knobs and controls and staring at a screen,” said Kaity Aurilio.

And Ford looking to push health and wellness in the car. Among the projects it’s working on, an allergy alert system.

“The idea there allowing users to get allergen information about where they are: Allergen, ultraviolet, flu, the whole bit. Ideally, pollution at some point. Future places to go with that include predicting when you're entering areas like that or if you're planning a route to route around them so that say asthmatics can avoid situations where they might have an attack,” said David Melcher.

Ford also trying to work into the system a way to warn diabetics when to grab a bite because it might be unsafe to drive. That'd be based on blood sugar readings and logbooks the driver creates throughout the day.