Audi works with Chinese technology companies to develop intelligent cars German carmaker Audi has signed agreements with Chinese technology companies Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent to work on data analysis, internet connected vehicles and intelligent public transport. Audi China and FAW-Volkswagen – a joint venture between state-owned car manufacturer FAW Group and Volkswagen that makes Audi and …
Indicators? Audi? Never. Audi's are the new Beemers.
Add to that, there is the blindness of the drivers who seem to think that solid double white lines are there for crossing at all times as the driver of the RS8 as he overtook me on a blind corner last Tuesday afternoon. He was faced with an Artic coming the other way so the Audi ended up in a ditch.
Well, he (presumably) was not a total a..e and "responsibly" landed only himself in that ditch. World of intelligent vehicles will be full of close (by human standards) calls. One will have to look the other way and grow thick skin. Bad drivers at least also risk their lives. Computers... relay on
infallibility of the code.
Audi indicators get used all the time. Exclusively on Audis, use of the indicator lights in hazard mode exempts the driver from parking restrictions.
Audi adaptive cruise control code sample:
if ( dist_to_car_in_front >= ONE_METRES) { accelerate(MAX); headlights_Full_Beam(TRUE); };
Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent to work on data analysis, internet connected vehicles and intelligent public transport.
That's equivalent to Ebay, Twitter and Facebook running Public Transport.
Not one of those are Technology companies. They are companies using the Internet for delivery of Marketing, Social Media and Services.
What are VW/Audi smoking
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