{"id":11027,"date":"2026-01-14T13:38:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T13:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rutha.org\/index.php\/2026\/01\/14\/will-i-am-unveils-three-wheeled-ev-with-ai-assistant\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T13:38:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T13:38:01","slug":"will-i-am-unveils-three-wheeled-ev-with-ai-assistant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rutha.org\/index.php\/2026\/01\/14\/will-i-am-unveils-three-wheeled-ev-with-ai-assistant\/","title":{"rendered":"Will.i.am unveils three-wheeled EV with AI assistant"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Musician and entrepreneur Will.i.am<\/a> has entered the micro-mobility space with his new company Trinity, revealing a AI-equipped, single-passenger vehicle designed as “brains on wheels”.<\/span><\/p>\n

Shown as a prototype at the Consumer Electronics Show<\/a> in Las Vegas last week, the Trinity vehicle<\/a> is electric and designed for urban travel, with a three-wheeled, self-balancing design that, according to the company, combines the agility of a motorbike with the stability of a car.<\/p>\n

The microcar integrates artificial intelligence, although not for driving, which is firmly non-autonomous.<\/p>\n

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Will.i.am has launched a three-wheeled EV<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Instead, the conversational AI is for everything else a person may want while on the road, from sending messages and setting reminders to finding parking near the destination, answering questions about passing landmarks and even dynamically adjusting the playlist to the speed of the drive.<\/p>\n

It is intended to be agentic, meaning it can proactively make decisions and execute tasks over multiple steps, such as the command: “find parking near this meeting, text them my ETA and log the mileage for expenses”.<\/p>\n

“Trinity is for people who still love driving but want software and AI to handle the mental load around the drive \u2013 planning, coordinating, remembering and connecting,” said William Adams, better known by his stage name Will.i.am.<\/p>\n

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The vehicle has a waterproof climate-controlled cabin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In an interview with Dezeen, Adams explained that the company put AI at the heart of the project.<\/p>\n

“Most vehicles are designed from the mechanical platform outward \u2013 chassis, engine or battery, then software added on top,” he said.<\/p>\n

“Trinity started from a different question: What if the agent \u2013 a smart, conversational operator that understands your goals \u2013 was the centre of the whole experience?”<\/p>\n

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Trinity was unveiled at CES in Las Vegas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The vehicle’s hardware, sensors and user interface were built around giving the agent rich context and clear ways to help.<\/p>\n

This includes multiple cameras, allowing the AI to “see” objects such as cars, bikes, pedestrians, traffic lights, storefronts and signs and use that situational awareness for alerts, routing and context\u2011aware actions.<\/p>\n

“This is more useful than a phone or wearable assistant because the agent is embedded in the thing that moves you,” Adams said. “It knows your speed, direction, trip state, cabin conditions, and real\u2011time surroundings through its own sensors.”<\/p>\n

“Phones are guests in that experience; Trinity’s agent is the host that sees, reasons and acts continuously from door\u2011to\u2011door.”<\/p>\n