At CES Consumer Electronics Show, automobile manufacturers turned into technology companies. The figure of scientific and technological media has been flooded with traditional automobile media. This collision between tradition and future, conservatism and subversion also makes the attraction of CES show even surpass the traditional auto show.
This collision has continued to this day-not only traditional car giants such as Mercedes-Benz, Toyota and General Motors have made CES their home, but even Sony has begun to build cars.
Mercedes-Benz Visual AVTR
At CES in 2020, Mercedes-Benz released a vision inspired by the movie Avatar. The AVTR concept car, which has the highlights of combining human and vehicle technology, sustainable battery technology and sustainable body materials, is the embodiment of Mercedes-Benz's "Vision 2039" strategy.
Vision? AVTR concept car adopts the holistic design concept, which integrates the appearance, interior and user experience, and integrates the internal and external environment from the perspective of the integration of different life forms in Avatar. ? Vision? AVTR concept car adopts slender "bow" body design and organic design language.
When you sit in the car, you will be integrated with the car, and at the same time you can truly perceive the outside world and consciously experience and feel. The multifunctional control center and its components on the center console have replaced the traditional steering wheel, realizing man-machine integration.
Vision? The AVTR concept car design has an immersive experience space. Passengers only need to raise their hands, and the choice of operation menu can be projected on their palms, so that they can intuitively choose different functions. For example, passengers can explore Pandora's dream world from different angles through real-time 3D images.
According to Kang, chairman of Daimler's board of directors, Avatar 2 has established a fictional dream world, and the information it conveys is also the future vision that Daimler AG hopes to express: sustainable travel, resource conservation, environmental protection and harmony among people, machines and nature.
Toyota "weaving smart city" (weaving? City)
Among many automobile manufacturers, Toyota's transformation seems to be the most thorough. Since the Tokyo Motor Show, there are no cars on the company's booth, but a series of future travel visions. This time, Toyota will establish a demonstration city for future travel in Japan, and work with partners in various fields to verify the possibility of future travel, autonomous driving, artificial intelligence and other fields, and shorten the development demonstration and development cycle.
Toyota's "Zhihui City" is located in Ueno City, Shizuoka Prefecture, covering an area of about 7,654,380,000 square meters. It is also the Azumafuji factory of Toyota Motor Corporation. It is planned to close down at the end of 2020, and the construction of smart currency market will begin in 2026, 5438+0. The reason why it is called "the city of weaving wisdom" is to weave the city with all kinds of smart streets.
In Zhihui City, roads will only be provided for self-driving cars and zero-emission cars. For example, the e-Palette released by Toyota not long ago will become the main means of transportation in Weaving City. In addition to walking, e-Palette can even turn into a "mobile dining car" on the street.
Initially, 2,000 people will live in Smart City, and the electricity will be provided by hydrogen fuel cells, and the solar cell system on the roof of the building will also provide some power. It is reported that the buildings in this city will be mainly composed of carbon-neutral wood.
Akio Toyoda said that a smart city is not only his personal dream, but also represents Toyota's determination to transform into a mobile travel service provider.
Hyundai Motor's "People-oriented" Future Mobile Travel Vision
Hyundai Motor Group at CES? In 2020, the innovative vision of smart mobile travel in the future city was announced, and it is committed to building a dynamic and people-oriented future city and transforming into a "smart mobile travel solution provider".
Hyundai Motor Group proposed and demonstrated three mobile travel solutions, namely, urban air travel (UAM), customized vehicle type (PBV) and central hub integrating transportation and community activities.
Urban air travel (UAM) solutions include personal plane (PAV) and urban air travel service, which opens up the sky as a new mobile channel and helps to reduce travel time. Personalized customized vehicle (PBV) is an environment-friendly vehicle driving on the ground, which can provide customized mobile space and services for passengers.
UAM can connect the sky and the ground, and PBV can connect people on the road. Both of these smart mobile travel solutions can be docked on the Hub. In the future, UAM, PBV and Hub will cooperate closely and play a key role in building a vibrant and people-oriented future city and enriching people's lives. In the future, Hyundai Motor Group will widely deploy this hub solution and build a complete mobile travel system.
UAM, PBV and Hub constitute a complete network system. Based on this, Hyundai Motor Group put forward the vision of intelligent mobile travel and promised to provide customers with a smooth and personalized mobile travel experience.
Nissan's lightweight super sound insulation material
The super sound insulation material exhibited by Nissan at this CES is composed of crystal structure and plastic film, which can effectively control air vibration and reduce the spread of broadband noise (500- 1200Hz) generated when vehicles are driving on the road and engines are working. At present, most of the sound insulation materials in this frequency band are heavy rubber.
The new super sound insulation material introduced by Nissan Motor Company is optimized in weight, which reduces the weight by 75% compared with the traditional sound insulation material without changing the sound insulation effect. The simple structure also effectively controls the cost, and the production cost of new super sound insulation materials is almost the same as that of traditional sound insulation materials, and even more competitive. Therefore, the material is also suitable for vehicles limited by cost or body weight.
Nissan's new super sound insulation materials can also make the car body lighter, which will help improve energy efficiency and economy and reduce the impact of vehicles on the environment. A quiet car can make driving more comfortable and improve the driving experience.
BMW "City Suite"
CES？ In 2020, BMW introduced a special version of the model based on the compact pure electric vehicle i3-i3? City? Suite. As the name implies, city? Suite can be translated as "city suite", so the design of the new car's internal cockpit is also developing towards the mobile living room.
Specifically, i3? City? Suite abandoned the traditional co-pilot seat and back seat, and instead provided a more comfortable "boss seat" for the back seat. If passengers need temporary work, the desk and desk lamp on the left can meet their needs well; If passengers want to have fun, they can put their feet on the leg rest of the original passenger seat, and then turn off the screen on the roof to look down on the movie.
It is worth mentioning that the fabrics, certified wood, olive tanned leather and floor mats used in the car all use recyclable materials. In addition, according to BMW officials, i3? City? Suite also provides independent voice control function for the back row. At present, we don't know the specific direction of this function, but as far as the function of private fairy tale assistant displayed in modern times is concerned, i3? City? Suites still want to provide passengers with a private space.
Honda enhancement? Driving? Concept intelligent driving concept car
Enhance? Driving? Concept does not blindly emphasize the level of automatic driving like the previous intelligent driving concept car. On the contrary, it emphasizes how drivers can have fun driving in fully-automatic cars.
The car is equipped with multiple sensors and cameras to judge the driver's intention, thus ensuring that the system can switch between automatic driving and semi-automatic driving very smoothly. It is worth mentioning that its special steering wheel can be regarded as an "integrated controller" in essence, through which users can tap the steering wheel twice to start the car, pull back to slow down and push forward to accelerate.
The new car provides eight driving modes from semi-automatic driving to automatic driving, and users can enjoy different driving pleasure.
Batten M-Byte's debut in North America
After the Frankfurt and Guangzhou auto shows, Barton's first model, the M-Byte, made its debut in North America. Compared with the car itself, it is more noteworthy that Baiteng announced the launch of the "Baiteng Developer Program" and announced the first batch of North American Internet content partners. This is an extension of Bai Teng's creation of the "fourth space". Batten's unique user interface and interactive mode will give developers the opportunity to present in-vehicle content in an unprecedented way.
This is also the first step for Baiteng to establish the differentiation of digital experience and human-computer interaction.
Fisk brought a model? Y "killer"
Fisk's first model-Fisk? Ocean debut in 2020? CES, new car positioning pure electric medium-sized SUV models, and Tesla models? Y directly benchmarking. It is understood that the pre-sale price of the ocean will not be less than 40,000 US dollars, and the official cruising range is about 483km.
Fisk? Ocean has the latest design, such as hidden door handles, low wind resistance style wheels and panoramic skylights. In addition, the new car innovatively integrated the turn signal into the D-pillar. Moreover, the new car is also equipped with a solar charging board on the roof, which can slightly improve the cruising range to a certain extent. It is worth mentioning that Ocean will also refer to a ventilation mode called "California", where users can open 9 windows of the whole car with one click.
As for the interior, the official only released the detailed map of the center console, showing us the shape of the shift area and the shape of the multimedia control area. The overall sense of science and technology is still quite sufficient.
Bosch attacks AI
"By 2025, every Bosch product will have artificial intelligence function, or use artificial intelligence technology in the development and production process." ? Michael, member of the board of directors of Bosch Group? Bolle in 2020? Said at CES.
This is a signal that traditional parts suppliers are actively seeking change.
At the exhibition, with the help of a future bus concept car, Bosch concentrated on demonstrating its technologies and solutions that integrate electrification, automation, interconnection and personalization for automobile manufacturers and mobile travel service providers in the field of * * *. In addition to spare parts, the bus concept car also shows seamless and interconnected travel services, which can facilitate operators to operate and manage fleet vehicles, charge and maintain vehicles, thus ensuring travel safety. At the same time, exhibitors can experience the upgraded driving and sensor technology at the Bosch booth, and feel the future mobile travel service with interconnection and zero emission.
Bosch also brought a brand-new 3D display screen, which uses passive 3D technology to produce realistic 3D stereoscopic effects. Compared with the traditional display screen, it can help drivers capture important visual information faster and reduce distractions. For example, when parking, a more realistic rear view image helps to find obstacles in time and help drivers better grasp the remaining space between the rear fender and the parking lot wall. In addition, the passive 3D technology on Bosch's new 3D display can be used when drivers and passengers do not wear 3D glasses or use visual tracking technology.
In addition, the "virtual sun visor" exhibited this time won the "Best Innovation Award". The product is connected with the in-car monitoring camera through the transparent LCD screen, which can identify the driver's eye position, analyze the position information by using intelligent algorithm, and dim the corresponding part of the display screen according to the path of sunlight entering the driver's eye through the windshield.
In the future, Bosch will invest 3.7 billion euros in software development every year. This figure exceeds that of many OEMs and similar parts companies.
Continental Group: Facilitator of Internet of Vehicles and Autopilot
Continental has brought its latest technology and system solutions for future travel, helping people attach future travel ecology from the aspects of vehicle networking, data and calculation, assistance and autopilot enablers.
In the field of car networking, Continental will showcase innovative solutions such as the new generation of 5G car networking, real-time online update of Zonar commercial vehicles, and ultra-wideband intelligent access system based on smart phones, laying the foundation for seamless connected travel in the future.
Assisted and autopilot enablers include advanced driver assistance system, 360-degree 3D sensing technology and contact sensor system. Especially worth mentioning is the contact sensor system (CoSSy), which can detect low-speed collision according to the received sound signal and take emergency braking.
By installing 2 to 12 sensors at the corresponding position of the vehicle, the system can detect all kinds of sound information in the driving or parking state, and classify these touches according to the sound characteristics to judge whether they are car body scraping, low-speed parking collision accidents or other obstacles, because such touches have specific sound characteristics, thus helping drivers or car owners to take corresponding treatment measures.
In addition, the system also supports other functions. If the parked vehicle collides or scratches, the sensor can even be used to record the time of the accident, wake up the corresponding camera with the sensor signal, record the immediate situation, or send an alarm or send a message to the smart phone to let the driver know that the vehicle has collided, so as to stop man-made malicious damage and avoid unintentional accident and escape.
Sony is going to build a car?
In addition to releasing four brand-new TVs, Sony's car has caused quite a stir at this year's CES.
In the field of automobile driving in this conference, Sony mentioned the scheme related to automatic driving safety.
Through lens sensor, radar, lidar, etc. , automatic driving escort. And in the car, the car can pass? ToF？ Judge the driver's situation, then you can judge the driving mode more accurately.
Sony says it has cooperation with Toyota and Lexus, and both brands use Sony? CMOS？ Model of sensor scheme, in? JNCAP？ Self-driving pedestrians have the highest emergency braking test results at night. It can also show that Sony's solution can improve the safety of autonomous driving.
In addition to the newly announced plan, Sony is also there? CES？ At the press conference, a model called. VISION-S？ The model of.
It is reported that Sony has cooperated with many industry leaders to build this prototype, including? Bosch? Mainland, Genetex? NVIDIA, Magna, Blackberry and so on.
And the electric car platform is made up of Sony and? Magna? Design and build together. Do you have the whole car? 33? A sensor, the internal dashboard to the central console is a whole vertical display screen with built-in intelligent system module.
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