Near the end of the year, many domestic manufacturers have chosen to start doing year-end inventory, and the release of new cars will be suspended. But in foreign countries, there have been two larger exhibitions abroad recently, one is the Tokyo Renovation Exhibition that is currently being held, and the other is the just-concluded 2022 International Consumer Electronics Exhibition, referred to as CES.
At each year's CES, different manufacturers bring their latest products, hoping to show their best side at the exhibition. At the same time, the display of these equipment that will be put into the production car in the future also has a positive impact on the tone and height of the brand.
At cess 2022, automakers also brought a lot of new technologies worth paying attention to, such as BMW's color-changing body, extreme krypton L4 level assisted driving; Qualcomm's digital chassis.
At CES, BMW showcased its own e-ink technology (E-ink), which enables the vehicle to change color at the touch of a button. The surface of the paint is covered with millions of transparent microcapsules, only the size of a human hair, and each unit has a negatively charged white pigment and a positively charged black pigment inside, which realizes the display of different colors on the body by controlling the electrodes on both sides of the microcapsules.
It is said that in addition to improving the personalization of the vehicle's visual effects, this technology can also improve the comfort in the car and reduce energy consumption. For example, it turns white in the summer, reducing heat absorption, and in cold weather, it turns black, which increases the warmth of the car.
Of course, if this technology wants to achieve mass production, the regulatory problem must be solved, and if the crime rate rises because of the emergence of this discoloration material, it will not be worth the loss. In addition, the cost of post-maintenance also needs to be solved, and this high-tech car paint will never be as simple to repair as the traditional car paint.
Sony's achievements in the field of electronic products needless to say, at the CES exhibition Sony released a concept car called VISION-S 02, positioned as a pure electric model, born from the pure electric platform designed by Sony and Magna.
The highlight of the car is that the whole car uses 40 sensors to achieve 360 ° all-round coverage around the body, making it have super automatic driving ability, and even can recognize and avoid ice cream cones during driving, which is currently the top automatic driving auxiliary technology.
In addition, the car also has the most proud audio and video technology, such as 7 screens in the car, and even can connect to the PS host remotely through 5G to play games on the PS console in the car. Of course, this function is the icing on the cake for cars, and the professor is more concerned about whether Sony can achieve high-level assisted driving technology as it says.
At present, Sony officials have confirmed that Sony cars will be officially established this spring, and mass production models will be launched in time. Sony can be seen as the second batch of new forces to build cars, as for how many breakthroughs Sony can make in the current new energy vehicles, how much surprise can it bring us? The professor was very much looking forward to it.
In partnership with Mobileye, Extreme Kr expects to launch the world's first L4-class assisted driving car in 2024. In simple terms, the L4 level is that the owner does not need to take over the steering wheel and brakes, the accelerator pedal, has the ability to drive autonomously, and only needs to intervene in certain emergencies.
The car is built on the SEA Haohan architecture, based on six Eye Q5 system-on-chips, through Mobileye to solve road management, mapping technology and RSS (responsibility sensitive safety) and other issues, to achieve krypton software and Mobileye integration.
According to overseas media, the car's EyeQ5 chip single chip only 24 TOPS computing power, foreign media said that although such computing power can support L4 level driving assistance, but whether the computing power can have enough redundancy to make the vehicle fast and smooth processing is another matter, and this will become the key to the extreme Kr L4 driving assistance.
At this year's CES show, Mobileye brought the EyeQ Ultra chip, which is specially built for assisted driving, made using a 5-nanometer process, with a computing power of up to 176 TOPS, and can simultaneously process two sensing subsystems and inputs to the central computing system, high-definition maps, driving decision software, etc. It is said that the chip will be supplied at the end of 2023 and achieve full vehicle-level mass production in 2025.
We know Qualcomm may start from its mobile phone chip, in fact, Qualcomm has a good performance in all areas of chips, at the CES exhibition, Qualcomm announced cooperation with Volkswagen, BMW, Weilai, BYD, Geely and other 37 car companies to create a more intelligent car experience.
Snapdragon Ride is a new platform developed by Qualcomm for assisted driving needs and in accordance with the NCAP standard, with a complete set of advanced driver assistance systems. At the same time, there is also the Snapdragon cockpit platform, which provides a highly customized car machine system, multi-display, multi-camera, audio and other media needs.
In addition, there are 5G-based connected car networking services and vehicle cloud services to improve vehicle positioning capabilities and vehicle-to-vehicle interconnection, cloud services can help manufacturers and vehicles to achieve OTA technology.
The digital chassis, in short, consists of Qualcomm's entire open and scalable cloud connectivity platform, which gives vehicles greater security, updated digital experiences, and upgrade functions throughout the entire life cycle of the vehicle through a unified architecture.
In fact, the technology brought by Hyundai Group at this year's CES show will be more conceptual, which Hyundai calls: Mobility of Things, that is, the movement of everything.
In our traditional understanding, some objects are fixed, such as trees, buildings, etc., and modern PnD modules and DnL modules can break these shackles.
For example, the PnD module integrates a mobile device with in-wheel motors, steering, suspension, brakes, and sensors, enabling intelligent steering, driving, braking, and more through lidar and cameras. By installing this module on certain objects, it is possible to give it a moving function.
What's more, the PnD module is installed in a fixed cockpit to transport commuters from public transportation to the company or home, realizing the final stage of daily travel. In a mobile hospital that can even be used as an emergency rescue.
Isn't it more sci-fi? In simple terms, the function is to add "wheels" to all items, and through programming and intelligent control, to solve people's travel needs. Of course, the whole system has not had much reform for the current automotive industry, but these technologies still have certain positive significance for intelligent interaction, the Internet of Everything and the Internet of Vehicles.
From the CES exhibition, it can be seen that new energy has become the mainstream, and active driving and intelligent technology are the focus of this year's CES.
The car has entered a stage of change, at present, we can directly access to high-level assisted driving technology, with the improvement of chip computing power and sensor accuracy, high-precision map matching, our travel is quietly transforming.
In the future, it is possible that we will really change the way we travel through technology, and transportation may really become a mobile social and entertainment place.