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...

Major Suppliers  Updated at: 2025/03/07

Metal glow plugs for MAQGS SRM glow plugs QGS-shaped glow plugs (2 materials) QGS-shaped glow plugs (1 material) Fast-heating glow plugs Basic automotive sparkplugs -Start-assist systems GRU/GCU Sensors-Zirconia exhaust gas oxygen sensors OZAS-S2(Sensors for air-fuel -ratio control) OZAS-S1 ZFAS-S4(Small heated type) OZAS-S5(Small non-heated type) -Universal A/F ratio sensors ZFAS-U2 ASICS FOR ZFAS-U2 (Basic control circuits) ZFAS-U2-SM...

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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

oming to obstacles on the road. As each wheel of the active suspension can be controlled individually, they can be "lifted" or "dropped" to minimize impacts of uneven roads. With 18 frames per second the front camera scans the road. The signals are processed in the central driver assistance system (zFAS) and the electronic chassis platform (EFP) which activates the suspension actuators. The obstacles considered in the control strategy can be on b...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2020/07/16

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

ce a second production line, to be in operation from June 2020. The production capacity of each line is 3.5 million units per year, and the capital investment per line is JPY 1 billion. This is the third country of production of this product, after Japan and the US. The product to be made in China, ZFAS-U3, is the newest model and it can measure automobile exhaust gas oxygen more precisely. The responsibility for the molding of the element, inclu...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2019/05/30

s cloud-based simulation is similar to Nvidia's Drive Constellation that they demonstrated at GTC.   Visteon also demonstrated another variant of their DriveCore hardware ECU which includes an Infineon Aurix safety processor, similar to what is in Audi's central driver assistance controller called zFas. In addition, another DriveCore hardware variant features the next-gen Qualcomm Snapdragon Automotive Cockpit Platform as a main processor. Bosc...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2019/01/29

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

tomated driving, according to SAE standards. With over 40 driver assistance systems, the Audi A8’s capabilities are highlighted by the Audi AI Traffic Jam Pilot system, the system that enables conditional automated driving. By processing sensor data through a central driver assistance controller (zFAS), the system is able to stop, accelerate, steer and brake at speeds of up to 60 km/h on highways and freeways. If the system detects that the dri...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2017/09/28

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

eover, after 2018, when the new laws for level 3 automated driving systems are instituted in Germany, the new A8 will be offered with Audi AI traffic jam pilot, the world’s first level 3 automated driving system for a production vehicle. Audi will use a central driver assistance controller called zFAS that uses NVIDIA’s SoC (System on a chip) to intensively control the information on the surroundings for level 3 automated driving. Audi also ...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2017/08/17

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

l tank. An integrated roof solar panel supplements the system's power needs and adds about 621 miles of range per year.  Another purpose of the h-tron quattro concept is to serve as a technology study for the future Audi A8 luxury sedan. This is highlighted by the central driver assistance system (zFAS). Utilizing radar sensors, ultrasonic sensors, a laser scanner, and a new video camera, zFAS develops a model of the car's surroundings and feeds...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2016/02/04

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