The world's largest rubber duck and Jurassic Park dinosaurs rub shoulders at the Detroit Auto Show, which has been revived for the first time since 2019 after pandemic cancellations, with an expanded focus on car tech. "Previously for the Auto Show, they were not inviting professors from computer science," says college professor and first-time attendee Zheng Dong. The show has otherwise been short of the glitzy reveals of years past, a shift that partly reflects changing preferences of companies who now prefer to market directly to consumers in online launch events. "It feels definitely scaled back a bit when you look around the show," automobile analyst Jessica Caldwell tells AFP. "We're definitely feeling that auto show demise we've been hearing about." IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES