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Revolutionizing the sport in an energy-efficient way and being among the best in the process: Audi has set itself no lesser task for the RS Q e-tron’s second outing in the Dakar Rally. Head of Audi Sport Rolf Michl has set Team Audi Sport a clear goal: After four stage victories were possible at the first attempt in the first appearance last January, the aim from December 31, 2022 to January 15, 2023 is to achieve a podium result in the overall standings for the innovative prototype with its electric drive, energy converter and high-voltage battery. The concept won the Racecar Powertrain of the Year Award in December from a panel of experts from Race Tech magazine.
The Volvo Car Group is pointing the way to the future of automotive development: The Swedish premium manufacturer has now joined forces with Varjo, a Finnish manufacturer of high-quality augmented reality headsets, for the first mixed-reality approach for evaluating prototypes, designs and active ones This collaboration is being supported by the Volvo Cars Tech Fund, which invests in Varjo: the Group's venture capital fund promotes promising startups in the technology sector.With the new concept of Volvo and Varjo, the real and virtual worlds are merging: the virtual reality headset seamlessly complements virtual elements and even complete functions while driving a real car. Both the driver and the vehicle sensors perceived these enhancements as real, something that no other carmaker has ever achieved.The Varjo XR-1 headset, launched today, delivers unprecedented levels of photorealistic mixed or virtual reality in high definition. This dramatically shortens automotive development times by allowing features and design features to be evaluated virtually instantly. Compared to its predecessor, the XR-1 headset has high-resolution cameras and enables the display of mixed reality. Volvo engineers and engineers can drive future cars and test all functions in a simulation environment - many years before the vehicles hit the market.
The future of car development is here: Volvo Cars and Varjo, the Finnish maker of high-end augmented reality headsets, have created a world-first mixed reality approach to evaluating prototypes, designs and active safety technologies.The collaboration will be further strengthened by the Volvo Cars Tech Fund’s decision to invest in Varjo.The Tech Fund is the car maker’s venture capital fund which invests in high-potential technology start-ups.Volvo Cars and Varjo have made it possible for the first time to drive a real car while wearing a mixed reality headset, seamlessly adding virtual elements or complete features that seem real to both the driver and the car’s sensors, for development purposes. Until now, no other car maker has been able to do this.
Toyota is celebrating the title triple in the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) with an exclusive special series of the GR Yaris: The edition, priced at 42,490 euros, combines the powerful 1.6-liter engine with the “High Performance” package, a customer-specific vehicle setup and a paint finish in the GR colors. Interested parties can apply online at www.toyota.de for one of the 300 copies.The little model athlete is on the road with a built-in guarantee of driving fun: Inspired by the WRC series winner and world champion, the GR Yaris also features in the special series with the 192 kW/261 hp three-cylinder turbo petrol engine. The GR-FOUR all-wheel drive system distributes its torque between the front and rear wheels as needed. A Torsen limited-slip differential, which is standard in conjunction with the “High Performance” package, improves traction. The sprint to 100 km/h can be achieved within 5.5 seconds. An individual vehicle setup that uses the expertise of the Toyota Gazoo Racing World Rally Team guarantees even more agility and driving fun. The details of the setup cannot be communicated at the moment, but will follow in good time before the vehicle is delivered.
At CES, the BMW Group and Amazon showcase voice assistant LLM capabilities based on a current development project that the companies are working on in preparation for a potential series rollout. This makes the BMW Intelligent Personal Assistant the ultimate vehicle expert thanks to generative AI that is powered by the Alexa LLM. At CES, visitors experience how the voice assistant provides quick instructions and answers about vehicle functions in a much more human, conversation-like manner, while at the same time being able to control some vehicle functions.The BMW Intelligent Personal Assistant has been using artificial intelligence for speech processing for a long time and this demo is the latest proof point of the continued innovation BMW and its partners are bringing to customers. Complex processing capabilities, which enable human-like interactions and dialogs, have not yet been integrated into BMW series vehicles. Such capabilities are now made possible by LLMs, which are AI models that are designed to process human language at a high level and generate responses accordingly. The BMW Group is also taking careful steps to build a safe and trusted experience for customers, and continues to test and iterate these LLM capabilities over time with its partners.Since the introduction of the first BMW Intelligent Personal Assistant in 2018, language interaction has been an essential part of BMW iDrive. Today, the voice assistant gives customers control over many vehicle functions so that they can keep their hands on the wheel and their eyes on the road. Leveraging Amazon’s Alexa Custom Assistant — a solution that is based on Alexa technology and enables companies to create their own customized voice assistant — the next-generation of the BMW Intelligent Personal Assistant will soon become more powerful over the course of the year in vehicles with BMW Operating System 9.
The BMW Group and Valeo have entered a strategic partnership to work on the joint development of next-generation automated Level 4 parking solutions. This includes the development of solutions for automated valet parking (AVP). Here, the customer leaves their vehicle in a designated drop-off area. The vehicle then searches for a vacant parking space itself, manoeuvres into the space and later exits it again, and can even drive back to the pick-up area for collection by the driver. Either an autonomous driving system or a teleoperated valet system can be used as the underlying technology for this.CES 2024 visitors will have the opportunity to try out teleoperated valet parking for themselves. Teleoperation offers complete control in situations that could be very challenging for fully autonomous systems, such as in complex or unfamiliar environments.The teleoperator uses sophisticated technology and live camera images to guide and move the vehicle so that it can be parked and retrieved again in a carefully controlled manner. Possible future applications for this technology could include parking at events, at airports or in the logistics sector.
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