In-car networking (save FlexRay), smart image systems drive electronics development, expert says
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These essential trends are:
- Networking: As such not a big surprise, but Runge named the winning and losing technologies: Ethernet will be the winner, FlexRay will lose out. "FleRray won’t be able to assert itself. It will remain a niche technology", Runge said. Besides this technology issue, networking is no longer a feature for passenger cars and trucks only. Beyond these vehicle market segments, also agricultural machines, off-road vehicles and construction vehicles will increasingly employ in-car networks and electronic controls. As a matter of fact, in these market segments data networks are already state of the art, and GPS-controlled combines are no longer futuristic projects.
- Driver Assistance Systems: According to the Runge, camera-based systems are enablers for next-generation systems. As an example, Daimler is currently working on a 6D vision system. Such systems can identify the motion vectors of objects around the vehicle and thus can generate a more differentiated, sophisticated environment image.
- Sensor vision: By means of synthetic, computer-generated images ("Bird’s View") it is possible to create virtual protective shields around the car and detect dangerous situations earlier.
- Electric power steering (EPS): "EPS is about to displace the conventional hydraulic power steering systems", Runge said. EPS gives car designers much more options for implementing intelligent safety functions. And: No car currently under design uses hydraulic power steering anymore.
- Consumer electronics entering vehicles: This is not a design trend in the first place but more a problematic market trend. "We will increasingly see non-automotive components in the cars", Runge said. He pointed out that it is unclear how these components can be qualified for use in vehicles.
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