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Mercedes-Benz Vision Urbanetic Concept hits the Las Vegas Strip at CES 2019

We take a ride in Mercedes' autonomous people-and-things-mover.

Steven Ewing
Steven Ewing spent his childhood reading car magazines, making his career as an automotive journalist an absolute dream job. After getting his foot in the door at Automobile while he was still a teenager, Ewing found homes on the mastheads at Winding Road magazine, Autoblog and Motor1.com before joining the CNET team in 2018. He has also served on the World Car Awards jury. Ewing grew up ingrained in the car culture of Detroit -- the Motor City -- before eventually moving to Los Angeles. In his free time, Ewing loves to cook, binge trash TV and play the drums.
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Mercedes-Benz rolled out its Vision Urbanetic concept at CES 2019.

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And Mercedes even closed part of the Las Vegas Strip to let us take it for a ride.

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The Urbanetic can carry people or things, depending on configuration. 

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The Urbanetic can apparently carry up to 12 people.

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This is purely an autonomous concept, so it'll likely never come to production.

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Panels on the outside can display messages for pedestrians.

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It's all funky and light-up and neat. We dig it.

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In a perfect world, you'd be able to hail one of these little guys in a big city like Las Vegas.

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Or you could use it for transporting big palettes, for some hella cool Amazon Prime deliveries. 

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