2019 CES Highlights: News Made by Ford, Toyota, Audi, and Other Automakers

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The 2019 Consumer Electronics Show. The series auto writers like to hate has undeniably become an “it& & rdquo; reveal that can’t be missed, even though –like FCA–you have nothing particularly new or techy to unveil. However, engineering succeeds, and this year that the fundamental topics in the automotive hallways centered extensively on subjects including liberty, connectivity, artificial intelligence, virtual and augmented reality, smart cities, and mobility for all. On screen in what seems like countless screen booths spread around Las Vegas’ lots of conference halls and temporary buildings erected in parking lots are promising puzzle pieces necessary to complete the aforementioned big pictures. We all embedded three of our troops to bring one of the next highlights.

A Great Deal of pundits blame CES for the “passing ” of Detroit’s North American International Auto Show. There were indeed numerous car firms with booths or screens installed at CES, and a manufacturing car also made its global debut here (the next in history). Hyundai probably made “Best Concept” honors in unveiling its mad four-legged-and-wheeled Elevate concept covered under the Venture Capital segment below, but Audi, Byton, Ford, Mercedes-Benz, along with Toyota also produced information and staged splashy press events at this season ’s occasion.

Audi

Audi proposed leveraging its vehicles’ lots of onboard sensors to notify a reality game that contrasts the car rsquo;s different transverse and lateral accelerations into a roller-coaster journey as experienced via virtual reality goggles. We fear that the coaster rides could be quite dull when crossing the Great Plains, but via subsidiary Audi Electronics Venture GmbH, a start-up known as Holoride GmbH has begun to commercialize this “brand new type of amusement ” through an open development stage. Audi demoed the notion with Marvel’s Avengers: Rocket’s Rescue Run, that was developed along with Disney Games and Interactive Experiences. Audi plans to finally produce the technology available to other automakers and content programmers.

And not to be outdone by Mercedes-Benz’s bouncing GLE-Class crossover, Audi revealed the capabilities of its A8 busy suspension using it to heighten the experience of watching one of these Marvel comic film scenes in which the supers ruin some hapless town ’so infrastructure, bouncing, pitching, and rolling out along with the action–a potentially welcome recreation when stuck at a stationary car in traffic or while recharging. If you’re wondering, the present A8’s electric structure doesn’t allow the suspension system to get a program like this would require, however a midcycle upgrade is likely in the 2021–22 period frame.










Byton

Byton revealed the M-Byte at CES, however, the electric SUV’s sleek styling carries a back seat into the 48.0-inch curved screen that overlooks the dashboard, making Tesla along with Volvo displays look puny compared to the In the event the glow cast by that monumental screen doesn’t give you enough information, the steering wheel has a 7.0-inch screen, along with an 8.0-inch touchpad screen sits between both front seats.

Rear seats get entertainment displays, and the front seats might rotate up to 12 degrees to facilitate conversation when the auto isn’t moving. The lavish Byton M-Byte appears promising, and the automaker has specify a introduction date of mid-2019, however, thinking about just how long it’s taken other Tesla-challenging startups to really produce cars for consumers to buy, we take that date with a grain of salt.

Ford

Ford announced its plans to roll out mobile vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) technology for 2022. The method will be harmonious with the coming 5G structure but also functions on present 4G LTE along with other mobile networks. Ford’s design leverages Qualcomm communications technology, which enables connected devices to communicate with one another when out of scope of a cell tower. A major benefit of C-V2X more than other communications protocols like direct short-range communications (DSRC) is that pedestrians, cyclists, and so forth are more inclined to carry a cell phone compared to a DSRC-enabled communications device in order that they will be much better protected.

Hyundai

Hyundai announced plans to create a committed, modular electric platform (known as E-GMP) by 2020. The automaker showcased a Style Set Free vehicle personalization concept that looked for all the world just like an Apple Store where owners of all prospective autonomous Hyundais could dictate things such as an onboard rowing machine. Along with also a mobility ecosystem concept was floated in which clients could purchase mobility by the distance, by the moment, or by the megawatt. Few details have been hammered out as yet on this last one. Hyundai’s CRADLE (Center for Robotic-Augmented Design in Living Experiences) venture-capital subsidiary was founded in late 2017 and has already invested in 30 startups. Nevertheless, it was the group coordinating and supervising with these firms that constructed and unveiled a crazy robotic walking auto concept called Elevate, which we covered here.










Mercedes-Benz

Mercedes-Benz introduced its new CLA-Class and declared that its Freightliner Cascadia big-rig truck would be first to market offering SAE Level 2 partial independence. The CLA-Class joins its mechanical twin, the A-Class, at democratizing Benz’s MBUX user interface into middle-class incomes, complete with gesture management and an electronic assistant that responds to ldquo;Hey, Mercedes. ” The Freightliner, meanwhile, brings the sorts of innovative driver helps individuals ’re only starting to take for granted–automatic emergency braking along with pedestrian detection, lane departure warning, lane keeping, lane centering, adaptive cruise control, automobile headlights and high-beams, auto wipers–to Class 8 trucks for the first time ever.



























Toyota

Toyota is cooperating with Kenworth to equip 10 new T680 big-rig tractors with gas cell powertrains as part of a $41 million Zero and Near-Zero Emissions Freight Facilities (ZANZEFF) ban preliminarily awarded by the California Air Resources Board (CARB). The distribution aims to clean up the atmosphere around the Port of Los Angeles, however the trucks possess a 300-mile range and will provide cargo throughout the L.A. basin. Even the Toyota Research Institute unveiled its P4 autonomous vehicle testing stage , dependent on a Lexus LS 500h, and Guardian, also a Level 2 autonomy system which uses the sensing and computing ability of a Level 5 or 4 platform to better warn and help drivers under dangerous or particularly demanding driving conditions. Even the Toyota Mobility Foundation unveiled ideas to aid in personal mobility which comprised Evowalk (a sleeve which arouses leg muscles to assist in walking), Moby (a concept of shared devices that motorize guide wheelchairs), Phoenix Ai Ultralight Wheelchair (a mostly carbon self-balancing seat that removes vibration), and Qolo along with Quix (two wheeled exoskeleton concepts that enable paraplegics to maneuver around position up). And finally the company announced a partnership with Japanese mobile giant KDDI and U.S.-based AT&T to upgrade Toyota/Lexus connectivity with 4G LTE technology.





More from 2019 CES: 

Future Cars May Use Your Fingerprints and EKG Traces
Artificial Intelligence Tech for Our Autonomous-Car Future
Innovations in Enviro-Sensing for Robocars
CES 2019 Imagines that the Future of In-Car Entertainment

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