Future Car Tech from CES
Once known as the Consumer Electronics Show but now
exclusively referred to as CES, the huge annual technology
showcase in Las Vegas is increasingly becoming the home
of concept cars and automotive tech coming to your future
vehicle sooner than you think.The Smart Sun Visor
Invented in 1924, the traditional sun visor still blocks more
view than it does sun. Bosch’s Virtual Visor reimagines
the concept by using an occupant-monitoring camera
to locate the eyes and identify shadows on the face.
Then artificial intelligence directs segments of an LCD
screen to darken, shading only the area around the
driver’s eyes and tracking their position as the head or
vehicle move relative to the sun. Visibility through the
visor is thereby improved by some 90 percent while the
rest of the visor retains the transparency of a pair of
polarized sunglasses. Watch for it in three to five years.Hyundai Partners With Uber to Develop Air Taxi
Flying cars? Nah. Hyundai says the wave of the future is a flying
Uber—and the South Korean chaebol is going to build them.
Hyundai revealed a mockup of its Personal Air Vehicle (PAV), the
S-A1. Hyundai’s creation employs VTOL (Vertical Takeoff and
Landing)—it takes off vertically then tilts its rotors to take wing
like an airplane. When it reaches its destination, it transitions
back to vertical flight for a helicopter-like landing. Like a drone,the SA-1 will be all-electric and will use multiple rotors, quelling
noise and providing redundancy. It has a capacity for four
passengers and a pilot, though it’s intended to fly autonomously
once technology and regulations allow. Designed for trips of up
to 60 miles, it will cruise 1,000 to 2,000 feet above the ground at
speeds of up to 180 mph. Should everything go Tango Uniform,
the S-A1 has an emergency parachute deployment system.NEWSI OPINIONI GOSSIPI STUFF
18 MOTORTREND.COM APRIL 2020