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Smart Vision EQ: Mark Damon/Las Vegas News Bureau, Krzanich:
David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images.

The Smart Vision EQ by Mercedes Benz
autonomous car provides a new vision of
urban mobility and individualised local
public transport, ideal for car sharing.
The show car takes the logical step of dispensing with a steering wheel and pedals.

by crowdsourcing road data
from Level 2 and Level 3
MARKET
cloud-connected producLINGO
tion vehicles sold worldwide. Cumulatively, there'll
Volkswagen is
be two million vehicles harworking with Mobileye
vesting this data by the
to crowdsource
"DYNAMIC DATA"
end of 2018, and in 2019
that's ever-changing,
Nissan will offer the first
such as information
about road closures,
self-driving vehicle incorweather conditions and
porating an HD map built
parking availability.
from the data, a Mobileye
spokesman says. Also,
Volkswagen is working with Mobileye
to crowdsource "dynamic data" that's
ever-changing, such as information
about road closures, weather conditions and parking availability, the
spokesman says.

SHASHUA ARRIVES
IN ONE OF INTEL'S FIRST
SELF-DRIVING CARS:

"The social cost
of accidents is just
too great."

C TA . t e c h / i 3

Leddartech debuted the world's
first 3D solid state LiDAR integrated
circuit (IC) chip, dubbed the LCA2.
Priced at $100, it is expected to be
built into production vehicles beginning in 2020, says Charles Boulanger,
Leddartech's CEO. The LCA2 is
designed for rear-facing LiDARs.
Leddartech also displayed the LCA3
SOC, which is intended for front-facing LiDARs, and is priced at $150.
Samples of the LCA3 are expected to
be available to automakers and their
suppliers by the end of this year, and
it's expected to be built into production vehicles by 2021, Boulanger says.
Bosch presented its automated
valet parking concept, which lets drivers leave the car at a parking garage
entrance and command it, via
a smartphone app, to park itself in an
available space. This is predicated on
smart parking garage infrastructure
that communicates with the vehicle's
on-board software, Bosch says.
Bosch also announced CommunityBased Parking, an initiative in 20 U.S.
cities including Boston, Los Angeles
and Miami to enable vehicles
with cloud-connected vision to report
on the availability of parking spaces
as they drive past them, making
realtime parking information available to other drivers through their
vehicles' built-in navigation system
screens. Which vehicles - whether
they'll be privately-owned cars or
those belonging to the cities' fleets,

Kay Stepper

VP Driver Assistance &
Automated Driving, Bosch
KEYNOTE:
Connect2Car:
Next-Gen Automobility

and which models from which automakers - remains to be determined,
says Kay Stepper, head of driver assistance and automated driving for
North America at Robert Bosch LLC,
based in Plymouth, MI. The majority
of these "model deployments" will
take place the beginning of the next
decade, but some will take place
sooner, Stepper says.

MORE OCCUPANTFRIENDLY INTERIORS

Bosch introduced its "next-generation
cockpit" boasting new ways for cars to
interact with the people inside a vehicle. The most significant of these is
a voice assistant similar to Apple's Siri
and Amazon's Alexa, which responds
to natural language queries but does
not need to be connected online to do
so, and can "think ahead," the company explains. For instance, using AI,
the Bosch voice assistant can anticipate that the driver will want to listen
to a news channel in the morning
when he asks to switch on the radio.
Further, unlike Siri or Alexa, the
assistant will respond to any name the
user assigns to it, although Bosch is
giving it the initial identity of a woman
named Casey. Besides the voice assistant, Bosch demonstrated digital
displays with haptics that make onscreen buttons feel like physical ones
and provide sensory feedback to
drivers while using controls. The idea
is to reduce driver distraction by
allowing functions to be controlled
by feel, without taking eyes off the
road ahead, the company says. Plus,
a camera and voice recognition

ON THE AVAILABILITY OF
COMMUNITY-BASED PARKING:

The majority of these
"model deployments" will
take place the beginning of
the next decade, but some
will take place sooner.

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