Sony offers an in-car streaming service called RIDEVU with access to over 2,000 of its movies, which is currently offered on the VinFast VF 8. Neither of these are "new" trends in the automotive industry, but the Afeela will have a unique screen on the exterior that will display messages to other vehicles. So, that's something.

Afeela is starting to become a little bit more than just a feeling. The electric vehicle, which is a joint venture between Sony and Honda, is finally available for preorder. And it only took five years to get here.

Need a quick history lesson? Sony was originally founded in 1946 as Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo. It went through the Walkman and the Discman, and in 1994, it introduced the first-ever PlayStation. It also released a range of robot dogs between 1999 and 2006, and yep, now it’s building cars.