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A car ships without a rear window and another changes color on demand

development2026-04-26

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BMW embedded color-changing electronic ink directly into a vehicle hood while the 2026 Polestar 4 ships without a rear window in favor of a camera-fed digital mirror, treating glass itself as legacy hardware.

Reporting date: 2026-04-26 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to April 26, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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A car ships without a rear window and another changes color on demand
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-04-26
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-04-26-glass-becomes-legacy-hardware
Claim: BMW embedded color-changing electronic ink directly into a vehicle hood while the 2026 Polestar 4 ships without a rear window in favor of a camera-fed digital mirror, treating glass itself as legacy hardware.
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- Welcome to April 26, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-april-26-2026
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