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By bringing a wide range of technologies to bear, Continental
is advancing automated driving capabilities. And it is even
putting it on the road in its own development vehicle.
"Automated driving will provide an important contribution to making life easier
for the driver, and to creating a more efficient overall traffic flow, with fewer critical
situations or accidents", says Dr. Elmar Degenhart, chairman of the executive board of
Continental.
So the company, which consists of five divisions—Chassis & Safety, Interior,
Powertrain, Tires, ContiTech—is devoting considerable resources to help develop
the technologies that its OEM customers require in order to achieve various levels of
automated driving. They're producing everything from cameras to materials for inte-
riors that lend themselves to being deployed in automated vehicles; from electronic
air suspension systems to the software necessary to control automated vehicles.
In the Chassis & Safety Division alone—and know that this is the one where
there are tremendous efforts underway therein to develop and mass produce the
products necessary for automated driving (and automated parking: they've devel-
oped a valet parking system demonstrated with a vehicle that's equipped with four
short-range radar sensors, four surround-view cameras, a forward-facing mono
camera, and a digital map that can park itself with or without communication from
The "CUbE": Continental
Urban mobility Experience.
Conti has taken its various
automated driving tech and
is putting it to work in a
vehicle that it is testing out
at its Frankfurt facility.
BY GARY S. VASILASH, Editor-In-Chief
The ContiAdapt concept tire is capable of changing its width depending on driving conditions.
In effect, it is a "smart tire." Continental has another concept, the ContiSense, which uses
electrically conductive rubber compounds so that it has the ability to work as a sensor.
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