In an Audi to arrive at a fair part of the official car of tens of thousands everyday employee. But the approach of some Audi developers and journalists in an A7 for electronics show CES in Las Vegas was exceptional: Your vehicle put large parts of highways on a 900-kilometer route in public transport independently back and passed it even without the driver’s intervention other cars.
At the finish in Las Vegas, however, is already waiting for the competition: Mercedes , BMW , VW – if the producers are on the CES represented, including Toyota , Ford , GM and Hyundai . For the automotive industry an appearance in the Nevada desert is becoming increasingly important, especially for the German automaker. Because here they demonstrate for several years, how fast are the advances in automated driving.
The idea that your own car to leave the braking, steering and acceleration, like for many drivers currently be hard to imagine. But with experts is no question that the Autopilot is – and that it plays a vital role in the mobility of the future.
“Automated Driving is the ‘next big thing’,” says, for example, in January Burgard from Munich strategy consultant beryl. “The technology will revolutionize the individual locomotion.” He is not alone: ”IT innovations have the potential to to define car of the future new,” says Stefan Bratzel of the University of Applied Sciences in Bergisch-Gladbach. “Networking and autonomous driving are the main trends of the future.”
In Las Vegas’ll clear so Bratzel “become IT Fairs as the CES for the automotive industry as important as car showroom.” The car manufacturers but all that remains is: Firstly them sits one of the most powerful corporations in the world in the neck – has long been Google now been researching on a self-driving car and has presented a somewhat comical, but sensational prototypes last year , How it dangerous for Mercedes,
BMW and Co., when the IT company engages their core business with the cars, easily picture.
On the other games besides the classical values such as engine performance or fuel consumption, new criteria are becoming increasingly important: “ Software-based and networked functions in the vehicle becoming one of the most important more and more factors in the competition for car buyers, “says Wolfgang Bernhart, Partner in the Automotive Competence Center at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants.
What did the car manufacturer to offer so at CES? Audi shows the previously mentioned study based on the A7, which made it almost solely from Silicon Valley to Las Vegas, thanks to several Sensors , Cameras and Laser scanner , which are partly built already in series production. BMW can at CES a research vehicle based on the i3 to park automatically controlled via a SmartWatch . The car is in the parking garage alone the way to the next available gap and back. A similar trick can VW a VW Golf perform
Mercedes, however, has demonstrated some time ago, like a car itself winds its way through the traffic when the route was also slightly shorter than now at Audi -. It resulted from Mannheim to Pforzheim. At CES, the Swabians present a prototype that will mainly be the opportunities offered by the driver relief. “The car is growing beyond its role as a transport and finally becomes mobile living space “, says Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche, who appeared as a keynote speaker in Las Vegas.
As Mercedes imagines, demonstrates the degree F 015. The car not only looks from the outside quite futuristic, but above all in other than normal sedans: The front seats can be turned back, it is a Operating System without buttons playing with virtual elements, with gesture and eye movement. The silver prototype was rolled onto the stage after a tour of the desert and the hotel-mile from Las Vegas.
On the importance of autonomous driving is the industry so no doubt – and that cars to park without a driver, could soon become a reality. But exactly when the concept cars from Mercedes, Audi, BMW and other producers will be built in series , is still unclear. Even Daimler CEO Zetsche went after his presentation at CES walk from the stage – and will for the rest of the week in Vegas a very conventional company car with a chauffeur of flesh and blood
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