Volkswagen has started to prove carmakers like Toyota, Ford and BMW that they’ve grown past the emissions scandal by bringing in a new electric van prototype. The car maker announced that they are joining hands with Mobileye to put real-time image processing in automobiles.
New Volkswagen Prototype Can Build HD Maps for Self-Driving
The car maker has decided to make a solid base for when it starts to release driverless cars. The partnership with
Mobileye will put a string of sensors on the car that will allow it to draw accurate pictures of the roads it is driving.
According to the chairman of the Board of Management, the new world is going to be defined by driverless cars. In the future, drivers are gooing to be obsolete and the very nature of mobility is going to change. Volkswagen announced that they will start taking steps towards that future at the
Consumer Electronics Show 2016.
Volkswagen Teams Up with Nokia to Crush Ford, BMW and Toyota
Recently, Volkswagen acquired Nokia’s HERE mapping service. All detailed mapping services are the base of autonomous driving, as cars need to know an exact layer of the land in order to drive themselves. Not much has been said about the acquisition, but many carmakers are partnering up with tech firms and making their own research teams to combine new tech with cars. For example, LG and GM are teaming up for the design of the upcoming Chevy Bolt EV, Ford is adding compatibility to Apple CarPlay and Google’s Android Auto in their future cars, and BMW is making more EVs. Many other firms are working on electric vehicles, semi-autonomous or autonomous cars. Toyota, for one, is even developing robotics.
Volkswagen is Really Just Apologizing For the Emissions Scandal
As for the car maker’s scandal, Volkswagen is hoping to clean its slate with the Budd-e concept car. The Budd-e gets 233 miles down on a single full charge, and it can charge 80% of its battery in 30 minutes. Some of the features displayed at CES include automatic mechanisms, like doors opening by just waving your hand in front of them.
The shift in focus to electric vehicles was a natural response to the emissions scandal that cost the company millions in cash and staff. The car maker has since announced that they are working on a comprehensive plan to bring 500,000 US vehicles’ emissions to comply with US regulations.
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