Live World premiere of the new 2014 Mercedes S-Class
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Category: Technology
Honda LaneWatch Blind Spot Display
Honda’s LaneWatch™ blind spot display has won a Good Housekeeping 2013 « Very Innovative Products » (VIP) Award, the only automotive product to earn this distinction for 2013 and one of only nine innovative new product winners overall. Good Housekeeping’s 2013 VIP award winners were chosen from more than 1,500 new products evaluated by the scientists and [...]
VW Golf 7 4MOTION – Animation
Volkswagen is expanding the new Golf range: following the models with front-wheel drive launched at the end of 2012, the versions with 4MOTION all-wheel drive are now being unveiled. Volkswagen is thus continuing the long tradition of four-wheel drive Golf models — the first Golf with four driven wheels made its debut back in 1986. [...]
Audi LED Lighting Technology
In lighting technology, Audi is driving progress at high tempo. Today, its xenon plus-and LED headlights already provide excellent illumination of the road and give the cars with the four rings an unmistakable look. In the future, vehicle lighting from Audi will react even more precisely to environmental conditions, and it will feature full electronic [...]
Audi’s automatic driving for parking
Audi’s automatic parking systems operate by means of either ultrasound or cameras, which display images via the onboard monitor. One particularly convenient solution is park assist. When backing into a parking space, it performs all the necessary steering movements; it can handle both parallel parking and parking perpendicular to the street. The system finds a [...]
Audi OLED ‘The Swarm’
A scenario in the OLED technology area to which intensive thought has already been devoted is the « swarm ». The Audi engineers have transformed a vehicle’s rear end into a large, continuous light surface, with innumerable small points of light flickering like a swarm of fish. The movements of the red dots follow the movements of [...]
Volvo Animal Detection – Vision 2020
Animal Detection focuses on collisions with wild animals Of course this collection of data is not restricted to urban environments. Out in the countryside and in more remote areas there are many serious collisions involving wild animals. Accidents involving wild animals are a major international traffic problem. In Canada, about 40,000 such accidents leading to [...]
Volvo Intersection Support – Vision 2020
Automatic braking at intersections Crossroads and junctions are the most complex part of the modern traffic environment. When many road-users cross each other’s paths simultaneously and from different directions, all that is needed is a small mistake to cause a serious accident. In the USA, 21.5 percent of all fatal accidents in 2007 occurred in [...]
Volvo Autonomous Driving – Vision 2020
Autonomous driving in traffic queues Autonomous Driving Support helps the driver stay in his or her lane and follow the rhythm of the traffic if queues build up. « Driving in slow queues is a monotonous and boring part of many drivers’ everyday lives. Thanks to technology for autonomous driving, the car can help the driver [...]
Audi City: The metropolis cyberstore opens its doors
Audi is preparing automotive retail for the future and complementing its dealer network with a new format — Audi City. The first location opens today in London close to Piccadilly Circus. The brand’s entire model line-up is presented fully digitally in a compact space. The efficient use of space facilitated by this approach allows the [...]
