And the Hi everybody. Welcome to The Shift, a podcast about mobility.

I'm your host Pete Bigelow.

Hi Pete and hi everybody, to the show this is Leslie Allen

Leslie it's good to see you today it feels like we've done this just a few times

more than usual in the last few days yes those of you who follow the show, you know we did a series of

podcast during CES. That is our big event of the year on this podcast. We did four shows and please check them out at

auto news.com slash shift podcast and you can catch up on what you missed and

hopefully you didn't miss anything and you got a chance to listen to some of those great presentations.

It was a fun week, it was a busy week, and in some sense we continue our CES coverage here today.

Our guest is Deanna Kovar, the Vice President of Production and Precision Ag

Production Systems at John Deere.

John Deere was one of these standouts, in my opinion, at CES. at

John Deere. John Deere was one of these standouts in my opinion at

CES last week in terms of automated driving technology

and we'll be talking with Deanna quite a bit about that.

But first, Leslie, I do want to ask you about the event at large. What did you find the most intriguing? What caught

your eye amid the, amid all the noise coming out of CES, be it in person or from afar.

Well, there were so many vehicle introductions to, you know, the reports of the death of the auto show are greatly exaggerated because the

auto show has morphed into CES. There were introductions by General Motors by

Stolantis Mercedes, BMW, Saudi, you know the

the Consumer Electronics Company getting it's dipping its toll again into autos and really indicating that it's

going to be making an EV push and Vfast which you've written about which is a Vietnamese company that is

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