the touch-sensitive rim once per minute with his or her hand to ensure that the lateral guidance of the adaptive cruise assist remains active. The driver remains fully responsible for steering the vehicle, however. The high-end system, which uses data from the central driver assistance controller (zFAS), can keep the Audi e-tron centered in the lane. It also manages longitudinal guidance across the entire speed range. It supports the driver with...

News  Updated at: 2020/11/25

sion offers another innovative feature: transverse force reduction. Predictive active suspension also increases passive safety in combination with the “pre sense 360°” safety system, part of the assistance system “City”. It operates in conjunction with the central driver assistance system (zFAS), which uses the merged sensor data to identify hazardous situations around the car. Customers in Europe can order predictive active suspension i...

News  Updated at: 2019/07/18

safety-software platform for autonomous driving applications. Wind River and TTTech Auto have worked together to develop highly scalable ECUs based on networked multi-core system-on-chips (SoCs) for advanced safety-critical automotive applications.  As an underlying software platform for the Audi zFAS architecture, VxWorks maintains and monitors the safety of critical applications. The zFAS platform enables automated driving assistance feature...

News  Updated at: 2018/10/23

blog, NVIDIA-powered vehicles showcased at Los Angeles Auto Show. Making its North American debut, the Audi A8 is the world’s first Level 3 autonomous driving vehicle to go into production. It also features a series of high-tech features powered by NVIDIA. Not only is NVIDIA the brain of Audi’s zFAS driver-assistance system, the world’s first true traffic jam assist system, but NVIDIA also enables the car's revolutionary new user interfaces...

News  Updated at: 2017/12/01

for the Audi A8, the world’s first series production car featuring level 3 automated driving. Radar sensor chips from the RASIC family are installed in the front and corner radar. They send and receive high-frequency 77-GHz signals and forward these on to the central driver assistance controller (zFAS). A microcontroller from the AURIX family is a key component of the zFAS for reliable automated driving. AURIX microcontrollers are used in the A...

News  Updated at: 2017/11/30

rankfurt Motor Show in September 2017. Audi's new A8, the world’s first Level 3 automated vehicle, offers a suite of NVIDIA-powered high-tech features, including AI Traffic Jam Pilot, Remote Park Pilot, Natural Voice Control and Swarm Intelligence. The AI Traffic Jam Pilot uses the NVIDIA-powered zFAS driver assistance system, letting the car drive autonomously at speeds up to 60 kph. ZF announced during its press conference that it has partner...

News  Updated at: 2017/09/14

s the active suspension. The innovative combination of dynamic and rear axle steering resolves the conflict of aims between agility and stability in the shape of dynamic all-wheel steering.The Audi pre sense 360˚ safety system uses the sensors networked in the central driver assistance controller (zFAS) to detect risks of a collision around the car. In the event of an imminent side impact at more than 25 km/h (15.5 mph) the suspension actuators ...

News  Updated at: 2017/06/26

named "piloted driving." In the system, data is acquired from the interplay of an array of sensors: a new type of laser scanner, several video cameras, ultrasonic sensors and radar sensors at the front and rear. Based on signals from these sources, the central driver assistance control unit named "zFAS", a compact central computer, computes a comprehensive picture of the vehicle’s environment.Equipped with two electric motors each output 170 k...

News  Updated at: 2015/05/27

Audi develops central driver assistance controller Audi announced on March 31 that the central driver assistance controller (zFAS) is the core of future systems for piloted driving under development by Audi.Audi developed this elemental control center in collaboration with internationally leading technology partners. Under the direction of Audi, a team of specialists from TTTech, Mobileye, NVIDIA and Delphi jointly developed the various hardware ...

News  Updated at: 2015/04/02

Audi tests autonomous car on highway in Florida Audi announced on August 13 that it has tested an autonomous vehicle on a highway in Florida, USA.22 sensors, including a laser scanner, are active in the test car, an Audi A7 Sportback. The central driver assistance control unit (zFAS) processes the data recorded with the sensors. This high-performance unit continually builds up a complete picture of the vehicle surroundings using the sensor data.W...

News  Updated at: 2014/08/15