Audi Details Central Controller For Piloted Driving Tech

Audi has detailed the latest among its efforts for producing new safety-oriented driving technologies, in this case piloted driving. Such functionality will be managed by a central controller the size of a tablet, says the auto maker, serving as the core upon which future piloted driving systems will be developed. Audi calls this a "key milestone" for autonomous driving functionality in general, and serves to showcase its own particular efforts in an industry that is scrambling to get self-driving cars on the road.

The central driver assistance controller is being called the "zFAS", and it'll be pulling in data from sensors to "quickly compute a complete" model of the surroundings around the car, then parse info from that model out to the different assistance systems implemented in the vehicle, feeding them the information they need to pilot the car and more.

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Audi boasts that the use of a central controller for driver assistance technologies is an industry first, or at least will be once the controller is rolled out in models and used for piloted driving. The auto maker is also working on a future where piloted cars will learn as the car is being driven, something that will be achieved, in part, using LTE, cloud-based tech, and artificial intelligence.

Finally, Audi has also announced that Delphi will be the system supplier for the controller's electronics board. Joining them were specialists from different companies, including NVIDIA and TTTech, who worked together to make the system's software and hardware elements.

SOURCE: Audi