A system that gently warms either side of the steering wheel to guide the driver to their destination. The idea is that the steering wheel keeps drivers' eyes fixed on the road ahead by providing them with thermal cues instead of audio or visual ones. It does this by quickly warming or cooling different parts of the steering wheel within a temperature range of 6° C (the actual temperature point could be fine-tuned by the user). This might be to alert a driver to an upcoming left or right turn as a means of navigation, but Jaguar Land Rover imagines it going a little further than that. It says these temperature cues could be programmed to alert drivers to upcoming junctions when weather and visibility is poor, or when the fuel tank is approaching empty, for example.

[Source: New Atlas. 31 May 2019. Nick Lavars]