That was an impressive takeaway from the first machine learning course i took: that many things previously under the umbrella of Artificial Intelligence have since been demystified and demoted to implementations we now just take for granted. Some examples were real world map route planning for transport, locating faces in images, Bayesian spam filters.
VW’s e-Up comes very close to that modern but minimal EV I wish someone would keep making. No touchscreen, just a smartphone mount. Analog HVAC controls. Even the battery-remaining gauge is an analog needle (though the usability of that detail is debatable!).
The absurd thing is that production will stop due to cyber security requirements. This highlights the absurd effect of regulations . Systems with a much bigger attack surface survive the risk assessment. All these new regulations are leading to absurd adverse effects towards their goal but particularly the environment .
Do the regulations mean that physical controls have to be replaced by a touch screen or is the touch screen just required for displaying a camera feed?
They mandate a way to view the backup camera. I suppose at that point it incentivizes auto makers to add additional functionality to that screen. There is only so much room on the dash after all.
I'd also be surprised to learn auto makers aren't doing this sort of thing because it tends to sell better. Similar situation to phones getting larger every year despite some segment crying for smaller phones.
Once you're sticking a big ol' screen in the driver's vision during backup time, that screen becomes obvious real estate for any other user interface you may want. Buttons and dials are cheaper than a touch screen, but buttons and dials+a screen are more expensive than a touch screen.
Seems plausible, at least. A button is cheaper than a touchscreen, but you can replace N buttons with one touchscreen. (Citation still needed, though.)
I've been driving an e-Up for the last two years and am happy with it. It's a small car, just 240 km in the summer and 180 km in the winter though.
The battery pack is not temperature-controlled so it gets hot in long trips, and recharging becomes excruciatingly slow. Then again, it was not designed for long trips.
The new Citroen e-C3 is a modern, cheap(ish) car with a similar concept: optional touchscreen and many physical controls.
Our Odyssey uses a combination of multiple radar sensors and a camera to provide excellent sensing. From what I have read, millimeter wave is best of both worlds between LiDAR and Radar.
The last link reads mostly like a press release from the manufacturer. I suspect there are reasons why it is inferior to LiDAR not listed on that page. LiDAR traditionally can be kind of impractical but solid state LiDAR will help a lot with that.
> the Model Y is ahead with 3,063 units, followed by the ID.4 (903), Enyaq (629) and Model 3 (602). Also well placed are the Polestar 2 (343) and the Volvo C40 (338) – with the electric version of the Volvo XC40 adding another 239 new registrations. The BMX iX establishes itself with 296 units ahead of models such as the Hyundai Ioniq 5 (262), Audi Q4 e-tron (250) and VW ID.5 (237).
It looks like 80% of cars were made in China. Tesla, Volvo, Polestar.
kind of the same direction here in Oslo -- they reeled in how many scooters any given operator was allowed to have in distribution and started applying real road rules to the scooters.
Being caught drunk driving an app-based e-scooter is as serious as any motor vehicle violation and will result in your car license being revoked.
