If you look at the predictions of the 1950s, most of them are miscalculated, or today we will go on a flying car. ThePeak magazine is unwilling to be blindly optimistic. It examines laboratories and looks for the most Promising new technology, then make the guess to see what technology will be popular in the automotive industry in the next 10 years.The following is the 5 technology ThePeak selected:
headlight
Considering bad weather and seasonal factors, the average car travels in the dark for a quarter of a day.Why auto makers ignore headlamp technology and upgrade light bulbs about every 10 years? Now we finally hear the good news: Manufacturers begin to pay attention to headlights.
Audi and BMW have installed super-bright bulbs, which are illuminated with reflected light and light coming from the headlights, and LED headlights, which consist of many light sources that the driver can turn off without interfering with other drivers.
It is predicted that in the future the car will have a new lighting system installed. This technique is not available before. For example, a car may have a narrow strip of light with the same width as a car. Because each LED is small, the designer can Design becomes bolder and more innovative.
screen
AR technology has emerged, but with the exception of entertainment, it seems useless. The car has a large windshield, leaving a lot of space to install the computer, it is a great platform that could become AR's next killer platform.
We have seen the rise of the head-up display, it is a pioneer, but the display is limited, at best, but show the speed, navigation map. And what do you know if you have a car or a lost animal close?
The next step is to augment the system with environmental information superimposed on the driver's real field of vision, for example if the car is about to collide, it will be shown in red, and if the lane has the right turn, it will be shown in green Device supplier Haman, Continental and Visteon Similar techniques have been demonstrated.
Body material
Carbon-based fiber reinforced plastics (CFRP) are harder than steel and aluminum, with which vehicles can run faster, process better, and save energy. As early as the 1980s, this material appeared in Formula One On the car, a new material was introduced to a McLaren sports car in 1992, and the car reached 391 kilometers per hour.
Since then, the new material seems to have come to a halt, and today we can only see it on a limited-edition, million-dollar car Why? Because CFRP has one big downside: the manufacturing process is too complicated Is too expensive), if not used in the best-selling car 'economy'.
After all, the new technology, the initial cost of course high, but slowly will come down because the company invested a lot of research and development funds in 2014, the BMW i3 became the first high-volume cars made with CRFP.Carbon emission standards more stringent , It will force manufacturers to work hard to reduce costs.
Automotive and automotive communications
Take a look at today's high-end cars, which can change lanes and change speed depending on traffic conditions, without the need for human intervention Tesla and Audi have developed new cars that can be driven long distances.
As the regulator is more conservative, the driver is not assured, autonomous driving technology wants to popularize some difficulties.V2V communication technology is exciting, it may be able to resolve some concerns.
If you allow cars to communicate with each other, driving will be safer.If an unruly driver crosses a stop sign, before you respond, his car may send a warning signal.At this time the car will automatically brake to avoid the collision The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates V2V will reduce the number of collisions by 79%.
48V electronic system
It's astonishing that there has not been a lot of change in the car's power system since the 1950s, and nowadays more and more automotive cutting-edge technologies are still being stretched by the 12-volt system.
A 48-volt system would solve the problem, and Volkswagen installed a 48-volt system on the Audi SQ7 that allows the turbocharger to accelerate within 30 milliseconds to solve the turbo lag problem.
Bentley Bentayga uses a similar device to control the roll bar and, depending on the terrain, experience better on a stop-and-go road. Automakers even want to introduce 'mildhybrids'.
Honda, for example, installed a 48-volt system in a prototype Diesel Civic to make the power output more stable.Honda estimates that a 48-volt system is equivalent to two-thirds of a fully-mixed system at a cost of only one-third of its cost .
