In Las Vegas on the morning of January 9, US time, the clear sky did not have a trace of clouds, and the ** desert climate maintained the daytime temperature here above 10 degrees. The 2024 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2024) is in full swing. From the first moment he got off the plane, the reporter felt the enthusiasm of Las Vegas to welcome visitors from all over the world. The terminals of Las Vegas Airport and the hotels around the venues have set up stations to collect documents.
As the world's largest consumer electronics show, CES2024 attracted more than 4,000 exhibitors from more than 150 countries and regions, exhibiting technologies in 41 categories such as artificial intelligence, metaverse, quantum computing, and 5G, with more than 130,000 registrations.
China Electronics News reporter at CES2024 siteAutomotive innovation is beyond imagination
On the first day of the exhibition, the reporter came to the west hall of the CES exhibition hall, which is the main position of automobiles.
Although there are expectations for the rapid changes in the automotive industry, the automotive technology innovation shown by this CES is far beyond the imagination of reporters. Flying cars, cars that can pan laterally, intelligent tires, 8K in-vehicle screens that traverse the entire dashboard without a single gap, chip platforms that support large models in cars, and AI algorithm technology for the entire development process of automobiles ......Technological innovation is pervasive from the outside to the inside. With the blessing of black technology, we can drive a car to take off vertically, and we can easily achieve 360-degree silky drift in the movie "Fast and Furious 3: Tokyo Drift".
The roof of the car rises to the storage compartment, stretching out four arms to both sides, and the top of each arm has a rotor - Xiaopeng Huitian's flying car, attracting the attention of domestic and foreign ** and the audience, when the reporter visited the booth, there are constantly Chinese and foreign ** to the staff to apply to enter the infield for close-up shooting, "the car can fly" "I really need a car that can fly through traffic jams" The discussion is endless.
The reporter visited Xiaopeng Huitian Feitian Automobile. According to the staff, this is a "land-air-in-one" flying car. In land mode, its flight systems such as arms and rotors can be folded and stored inside the car body, turning it into a streamlined sports car. In flight mode, it opens the arm through the folding and deformation system, realizes vertical take-off and landing in the environment where conditions permit, and flies over congestion, obstacles, and rivers to meet the needs of people for short-distance low-altitude travel. The air-to-ground integrated flying car also features innovative technologies such as a foldable steering wheel, transparent instrument cluster, and transparent chassis in the cockpit, and the intelligent cockpit can freely switch between land mode and flight mode.
At the booth of Hyundai Mobis, the first supplier of Hyundai Motor's parts, the car sometimes translates horizontally on the field, sometimes drifts and rotates 360 degrees, "walking horizontally" and "walking according to the table" are not a problem, and the audience who applies for test drives is endless.
Behind these silky maneuvers at Hyundai Mobis' on-site test drive is the "e-corner" (Electronic Corner Module) system, a technology that allows tires to rotate 90 degrees, allowing the car to achieve "crab driving" and "zero turns", allowing drivers to easily handle parallel parking on narrow streets.
All components are innovating
The intelligence of the car is not a simple "tram + brain". When every component becomes a node for data collection and information interaction, the car can become an efficient and stable mobile intelligent terminal. When it comes to in-car sensors, the first thing that comes to mind is usually lidar or various cameras, but the critical role of tire sensors in ensuring smooth and safe driving of cars is often overlooked. Goodyear, a tire company founded in 1898, is intensively working on tire sensors and intelligent tire systems, and has launched Sightline, a tire intelligent sensing technology.
Do tires really need to be smart? Taking Sightline as an example, the combination of tire sensors, software algorithms and cloud computing power can allow drivers and automotive systems to grasp the temperature, pressure, acceleration, ID and other information of tires in real time, which can be used as input items to calculate the wear of tire patterns, health conditions, and whether tires are leaking, so as to avoid tire-related risks and accidents. At the same time, Sightline can also grasp the road conditions through the contact between the tires and the road surface, and feed back to the car's driving system, helping the system adjust the driving strategy in real time.
We can calculate whether a tire is flat or not, especially if it is slow. Slow air leaks are often difficult to detect, but this information is important because it can cause the tire to deflated in the middle of the road. "We can also calculate the length of the contact surface between the tire and the ground to determine the contact between the tread and the road surface, which is very important if the car is driving over a road surface with water." ”
The screen is the main interface for information interaction, and the on-board display screen is not only getting bigger and bigger, more and more high-definition, but also more and more efficient. At BOE's booth, an 8K screen that spanned the entire dashboard without a single splicing gap attracted the attention of many visitors.
The new car is equipped with a new screen, and the driving atmosphere is new. The on-board screen exhibited by BOE is the world's first 45-inch 8K high-definition integrated long screen of BOE Varitronix, and this screen is equipped with the pure electric flagship sedan Geely Galaxy E8 that has just been released. Combined with the AI model capabilities provided by Geely, this screen can meet the personalized needs of thousands of people, such as matching different background desktops according to the lyrics when listening to songs. Combined with the AI time engine, the screen can also provide a more immersive experience in different weather and scenes, such as listening to the sound of the waves at the beach, and the screen can display the image of the waves slowly hitting the beach. Zhang Xingyu, a Geely automobile technology promotion expert, told the reporter of China Electronics News.
The chip is upgraded to support large models on the car
Chips are the core components of automotive systems and the computing engine that supports automotive innovation and technology upgrading.
Based on the Snapdragon digital chassis, which includes the Snapdragon 8295 automotive-grade cockpit chip, the scalable series processor Snapdragon Ride Flex that supports the digital cockpit and ADAS, Qualcomm has realized the LLAMA2 large model on the car. Powered by generative AI, in-car personal assistants are able to provide personalized services to drivers and passengers. For example, real-time driving scores and maps for ride-hailing drivers, recommendations for attractions for vacationers, and help parents who drive to monitor the status of their toddlers in the back seat.
On the right side of the screen is the Qualcomm Snapdragon digital chassis concept car, which is recommended by reporters for San Francisco attractions.
Hi Snapdragon, I'm going to travel to San Francisco tomorrow, which attractions are the hottest? When the reporter asked a question in the Snapdragon digital chassis concept car, the on-board assistant immediately recommended attractions such as the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz Island, and Fisherman's Wharf, gave a brief introduction to each attraction, and asked the reporter if he wanted to display them on the map.
From ADAS to L4 autonomous driving, different uses and models of vehicles have different levels and different emphases of requirements for intelligent driving solutions. At the Mobileye booth, the reporter saw the EyeQ "Family Bucket". In the demonstration, the EyeQ 5H provides 360-degree "true redundancy" perception capabilities for the car, supporting three sensors: camera, lidar, and radar.
The EyeQ 5H has been installed in models such as the Polestar 4 and Zeekr 001. In the future, our mainstream chips will evolve to EyeQ6, which is divided into two models, EyeQ6 Lite and EyeQ 6H, which will become our main chip products. Mobileye technical experts told reporters.
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Author丨Zhang XinyiEditor丨Qiu Jiang YongmeiEdited 丨Maria Producer丨Lian Xiaodong
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