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As autonomous initiatives continue worldwide, Audi is making further strides with “Jack,” their A7 piloted driving concept. Jack runs on a “central driver assistance controller,” or zFAS. The state-of-the-art, high-performance processors evaluate the vehicle’s surroundings in real-time, creating a model that represents the current driving situation as accurately as possible.
In essence, the technology can calculate various maneuvers and inputs in advance.
Recent improvements to Jack come in the way of passing, particularity with regard to larger vehicles like trucks. Jack now does it with a wider lateral gap, and signals for lane changes in a more human fashion. Jack is also quite tolerant, deciding how to maneuver accordingly when others need to merge. Audi is considering how vehicles will “talk to” other vehicles and infrastructure; sometimes referred to as Car-to-Car or Car-to-X communication. Information on road signs can be digitally transmitted to vehicles in order ease things like traffic congestion, for example. Or, another vehicle traveling nearby can alert other cars about potential safety hazards, like an accident.
Audi has a digital test site on the A9 autobahn to further develop this. Secured by the German Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure, Audi now works with representatives of the Free State of Bavari and the automotive and IT industries....