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Just a year after its birth, MOIA, the Volkswagen Group's mobility startup, introduces a concept of ride pooling that provides new ideal options to significantly reduce traffic in major cities....
Meet Mizuhito Terashima, a young CEO of a Japanese startup company called CuboRex that's developed a very rad concept skateboard called the Cuboard. The Cuboard's main unique feature is the pair of electric crawler tracks let the rider skate over any surface, including water, rocks, and grassy hills. The Cuboard, which weighs around 20 pounds and has a load capacity of up to 176 pounds, is able to travel nearly 10 miles per hour on non-paved roads, waterlogged streets and snow. A special remote control held in the hand during the skate session lets the rider control the speed of the tracks. Mizuhito Terashima showed off the Cuboard's capabilities both on the hills and rocks of the outdoors and on the paved roads of Tokyo as he zoomed through the city at night. The rider can turn the same way as on a normal skateboard, by leaning the board forward and backward. Mizuhito Terashima and his team have done extensive tests on the prototype and are hoping to take 'Cuboard' into mass production in April 2017.
The Audi Q6 e-tron is the first production model on the Premium Platform Electric (PPE), marking the next step in the company's transformation into a provider of premium electric mobility. With its characteristics, the electric SUV stands for Vorsprung durch Technik. The model is defined not only by impressive driving and charging performance, but also by increased efficiency and long range. The Audi Q6 e-tron1 embodies typical Audi SUV styling with a further refined e-tron design language. The new design philosophy in the interior and pioneering technologies debuting in the new model, begin the next chapter in electric mobility for the Four Rings and make Vorsprung durch Technik a tangible experience every day. With the Q6 e-tron range, e-mobility is coming from the Ingolstadt plant for the first time. The Audi Q6 e-tron quattro1 and SQ6 e-tron2 will be available to order from March 2024 at a price of 74.700 and 93.800 euros and will be delivered to customers in the third quarter of 2024.
BMW Group Innovations at CES 2024 - AR Ride Concept
The CES show also sees the BMW Group demonstrate for the first time how augmented reality (AR) glasses are set to enrich the driving experience in future. Visitors can test the possible uses of AR glasses for themselves on a drive through Las Vegas. Wearing the glasses, they can see how navigation instructions, hazard warnings, entertainment content, information on charging stations and supporting visualisations in parking situations are embedded perfectly into the real-world environment by the “XREAL Air 2”. AR and mixed reality (MR) devices will become increasingly popular in the next few years, thanks to technological advances and entry-level models that are more affordable for customers. In future, AR and MR devices will be able to offer both drivers and passengers enhanced information and enjoyable experiences to complement the displays fitted in the vehicle.The BMW Group has been working on the development of AR/MR technology since 2008 and investigating possible applications for head-mounted displays in research projects. The BMW engineers, together with their development partners, have now succeeded in showing stable augmented reality and mixed reality content to passengers in a dynamically moving vehicle for the first time. The displayed image remains securely embedded in the environment even in challenging driving situations, such as when turning, driving over large bumps or accelerating. To achieve this, the tracking system of the AR/MR device in question has to be linked to the vehicle’s sensor data.
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