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AUDI has been showing off a host of new technologies at CES, a global electronics exhibition, held in the U.S. city of Las Vegas.
On display has been a four core processor processing eight billion operations per second, a virtual tachometer with a needle that is rendered anew 60 times per second to ensure absolutely fluid motion, plus 3D sound to match a concert hall and appearing to come from every direction.
An Audi tablet used as a multimedia control panel and simple wireless communication between mobile devices and the car also demonstrated how diverse the future of the automobile is.
All this and convenience, too: piloted parking and innovative Audi wireless charging (AWC) technology pave the way for electric mobility.
:Even today, many customers view their car as more than just a vehicle – it is a ‘mobile device’,” a company spokesman said.
To mark 2015 CES, an Audi A7 piloted driving concept motored from Stanford in California’s Silicon Valley to Las Vegas/Nevada, a drive of around 900 kilometres.
“The test drive from the west coast of California to Las Vegas demonstrates our leadership role in piloted driving”, said Prof Dr Ulrich Hackenberg, Audi board member and head of technical development.
The A7 piloted driving concept utilises the latest technologically-advanced systems developed by Audi. The concept relieves the driver of driving duties from 0 to just over 110 km/h.
The car, that has been affectionately been named ‘Jack’ by the development team, can initiate lane changes and passing maneuvers. In addition, the A7 piloted driving concept accelerates and brakes independently.
The car’s driver assistance controller will upload data collected during the journey to the Cloud where it will be processed, then transmitted back to the car, enabling the car to permanently expand its data repository and making it an intelligent and adaptive vehicle.
Audi’s new hardware and software solutions are flexible and intelligent, and aim to provide added operating comfort.
Take the new Audi TT and the new Audi Q7: here, all the driver needs to do is to issue the voice command ‘take me to the nearest Italian restaurant’ and the navigation system immediately will display the corresponding route. This big SUV’s new all in touch MMI will let the driver scroll and zoom as on a smartphone. Every entry will trigger a haptic feedback.
