Aug 7, 2026 · 1 hr 9 min · 11 segments
Chip Motors CEO Jameson Detweiler explains his quirky $18,000 six-seat EV: 100 miles of range, a 25-mph top speed, remote operation and a smiling digital face. He also shares plans for autonomy…
Jameson DetweilerGuest
Jonny LiebermanHost
Ed LohHost
The chip that we saw outside has a face, and it's got a mouth that can smile and stuff.
To me, I think if a car is going to drive itself, it ultimately should be able to talk.
To the customer, the driver in there, to the occupants, the people outside the vehicle.
I mean, you can imagine a scenario where somebody's like, I mean, this happens.
Like I have, like I said, I have a Tesla Model Y. I drive with FSD every day.
The most uncomfortable situation that I have when I head to Michigan on my commute was a four-way stop that's busy, right? Because there's no communication that exists between those things.
And there's other things I think we'll do with that display to try and create that communication.
But you can also imagine you have an eight-year-old kid there that's looking at crossing the street and trying to understand that exchange.
car would autonomously or automatically AI agentically say, like, hey, go ahead and cross, or I see you, or something like that.
What we're working to do is build a full kind of spatial understanding of what's happening inside and outside the vehicle.
And what I'm about to say is how I think about this over the long term and what we're building in terms of technology in this.
But my previous business was in HD mapping and essentially creating digital twins around these things.
The chip that we saw outside has a face, and it's got a mouth that can smile and stuff.
To me, I think if a car is going to drive itself, it ultimately should be able to talk.
To the customer, the driver in there, to the occupants, the people outside the vehicle.
I mean, you can imagine a scenario where somebody's like, I mean, this happens.
Like I have, like I said, I have a Tesla Model Y. I drive with FSD every day.
The most uncomfortable situation that I have when I head to Michigan on my commute was a four-way stop that's busy, right? Because there's no communication that exists between those things.
And there's other things I think we'll do with that display to try and create that communication.
But you can also imagine you have an eight-year-old kid there that's looking at crossing the street and trying to understand that exchange.
car would autonomously or automatically AI agentically say, like, hey, go ahead and cross, or I see you, or something like that.
What we're working to do is build a full kind of spatial understanding of what's happening inside and outside the vehicle.
And what I'm about to say is how I think about this over the long term and what we're building in terms of technology in this.
But my previous business was in HD mapping and essentially creating digital twins around these things.
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