Continental presents the future of mobility at CES 2023

Continental will invite customers, media and investors to experience the future of mobility by experiencing its latest cutting-edge technologies. At CES 2023 in Las Vegas from January 5 to 8, Continental will showcase award-winning innovative products. These innovative products are continuously improving vehicles to meet future mobility needs, creating safer roads, a more immersive user experience, and more sustainable driving for people. Continental will show how its product solutions can improve the entire mobility sector, including how vehicles operate and how people interact with them.

Gilles Mabire, Chief Technology Officer of Continental Automotive, said: “We are ushering in a new era of mobility. At CES 2023, we will show how it affects vehicles at every level, from hardware to cloud. These innovations will disrupt every aspect of the mobility experience. , not just for drivers, but for all traffic users, including vulnerable traffic participants. At CES 2023, we will let people understand how the roads of the future will become safer, more sustainable and more efficient.”

Sustainability is the focus – starting with hardware

Sustainability is a focus for Continental, and the entire life cycle of tire production is sustainable, from material procurement to recycling. At CES 2023, Continental will highlight two sustainable tires: ContiTread EcoPlus Green and Conti Urban. Both commercial vehicle tires demonstrate Continental's leadership in sustainability. Continental will also present modules and sensors specifically designed for e-mobility to support new, more efficient electric vehicles, road safety and a greener planet.

Automated and intelligent solutions – connected to the cloud

Continental is integrating Ambarella Semiconductor’s “CV3” series of artificial intelligence chips into its advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) solutions. The goal of the first step is to provide the market with customizable solutions to meet their individual needs for assisted driving. The chip integration announced in November will debut in Las Vegas. Ambarella's high-performance, low-power and scalable SoC portfolio enables faster and more comprehensive acquisition of sensor data with approximately half the power consumption of conventional power consumption, providing a more comprehensive solution for safer travel. Environmental awareness. With lower power consumption and lighter battery weight, the chipset contributes to increasing the range of electric vehicles. It not only optimizes Continental's assisted driving solutions, but also further advances the development of vehicle automation.

Continental's HRL131 high-performance lidar unlocks the autonomous driving function. HRL131 was developed in collaboration with AEye. It’s the automotive industry’s first software-defined long-range lidar, designed to see farther and react to objects faster than before. This radar can detect vehicles at a distance of more than 300 meters and pedestrians at a distance of more than 200 meters. In this way, the technology provides key functionality for passenger and commercial applications. Its ability to detect small obstacles such as bricks from a distance and at high speeds in adverse weather conditions will be critical to advancing autonomous highway driving and end-to-end autonomous freight trucks. Testing and validation of production samples will take place in 2023. The first mass production is planned for the end of 2024.

In addition to increasing automation, automotive technology is also becoming increasingly interconnected. Connected vehicles make driving safer and more convenient. To support these new capabilities, cars are becoming computers on wheels. Software-defined cars and connected mobility require greater intelligence and computing power, but current car architectures have reached their limits. Continental's high-performance computing unit (HPC) was first launched together with Volkswagen's ID. electric series, expanding its functions and transforming into a service-oriented and centralized vehicle system architecture. At CES 2023, Continental will show how server/zone architecture can take this evolution to another level. Vehicle architecture is further optimized as zone controllers (ZCUs) integrate functions within the vehicle's physical zone.

Continental’s cross-domain area controller is key to software-defined vehicles

As more complex software capabilities are introduced, zone controllers help realize the full potential of software-defined vehicles. Regional controllers support the increasing separation of vehicle hardware and software to reduce vehicle architecture complexity and cost. This separation of software and hardware is closely related to the continuous update, improvement and feature deployment services of connected vehicles. In this type of application scenario, the zone controller takes over the role of communication gateway. They are the intermediary between high-performance computing units, vehicle sensors, actuators and various electronic control units. In addition, the zone controller provides intelligent power distribution and ensures reliable execution of the vehicle's various real-time cross-domain functions, such as audio, external sound, parking, heating, cooling or damping.

Continental's zone controller platform is scalable and modular, allowing automakers maximum flexibility when designing vehicle architectures, enabling full integration of hardware, software and third-party software, services and functions. Through applications like this, Continental enables car manufacturers to launch solutions faster and more cost-effectively.

Software for future travel

The software of the future will open up all new opportunities for cars. To ensure that vehicles can be expanded via software, Continental offers the Continental Automotive Electronics Edge Computing Platform (CAEdge). It is a modular hardware and software framework that connects vehicles to the cloud and provides developers with the possibility to create, test and deploy software functions in an efficient manner. This allows connected vehicles to evolve throughout their lifecycle with fast and easy software updates. Drivers can integrate features invented in the future and add them to the vehicle's functionality. To achieve this, carmakers can also choose from Continental's comprehensive software solution function catalog, such as function packages for window lift, software-defined radio, autonomous driving or remote parking.

Immersive driving experience

Innovations aimed at improving the driving experience. Continental is not only focused on making driving safer, but also on giving drivers a more convenient and immersive driving experience. As user experience becomes a key factor for car buyers, Continental's display technology will demonstrate how car interiors can become "the new driver of mobility in the future." With its curved ultra-wide display, Continental will present a unique curved display that spans the entire width of the cockpit at CES 2023. "Extra-wide" refers to a width exceeding 1.2 meters (nearly 4 feet), extending from one A-pillar to the other. The avant-garde display design creates a new dimension of user experience, while the innovative operating concept based on the invisible control panel ensures greater safety and comfort.