Microsoft and Volvo together for vehicles to autonomous driving
Microsoft has signed an agreement with Volvo to cooperate in the field of autonomous driving vehicles. The holographic display Hololens enable customers to learn about advanced details on cars in dealerships before purchasing.
Microsoft has signed an agreement with Volvo that will enable the two companies to collaborate in the field of autonomous driving vehicles, as reported by CNBC. Björn Annwall, senior vice president in charge of marketing, sales and services in Volvo stated that ” The technology will transform the autonomous vehicles, connectivity and mechanisms for purchase of car ” still explaining that ” the self-guided vehicles are the focus of the strategy Volvo and the future. ”
Details of the agreements were not disclosed. However, at the Los Angeles Motor Show, this week the Swedish automaker showed 26 Concept, presented as the interior of the car of the future. The number ” 26 ” refers to the minutes spent on average daily in the classic way that you drive to get from home to work, a time that in the view of the producer could be spent in a creative and relaxing. The idea (at the moment only a ” concept ” ) is making sure that the driver can delegate the leadership to a dedicated system, to activate a mechanism for retracting the steering wheel, tilt the seat, activating a display showing various multimedia options to watch online content or listen to music.
New ideas for the mechanisms of sale at the dealership. The collaboration with Microsoft is to use the viewer holographic Hololens during the purchase of the vehicle, a system that will allow you to view in a virtual showroom (an empty space in which they are projected holograms) various details of the vehicle. A demonstration was made for the S90, with features that allow you to highlight specific size of the body, engine, transmission, special colors chosen by the customer. Moving his fingers and using special gestures, you can interact with the model and access virtually the various components inside the car.
A pattern projected on the table allow you to see details on the technologies driving assistance (the company has been working for years in radar and camera technology, to keep an eye on the traffic, brake and steer automatically when needed) or projected on the floor on the peculiarity’s operation of the braking system and automatic system that alerts you to the presence of ice on the road and mechanism that identifies the ground slippery and automatically alert other drivers of the poor condition.
Hololens obviously does not require physical connections and allows the user to move freely in the showroom where is the proof. Viewer Microsoft, remember, will be on sale in the first quarter of 2016 ($3,000 expected price). For the same period, the particular demonstration system should arrive in dealerships Volvo.
Recall that Volvo is experimenting with automated vehicles for some time; some car driving a semi autonomous are already driving on Swedish roads and it were claimed that by 2017 the first real customers use Volvo 100 semi-automatic on public roads. The program was developed through a collaboration between Volvo Car Group, the Ministry of Transport of Sweden, the Swedish Transport Agency, Lindholmen Polytechnic and City of Gothenburg.
