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BY Danny Korecki
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At the Bosch North America's 2018 Bosch Mobility Experience a few months ago, we learned about up and coming technology such as automatic emergency braking to help save bicyclist lives and experienced first hand the all-electric, 590-horsepower Nikola NZT.
Back
at it again on the automated vehicle service front, Bosch is announcing
predictive road-condition services for automated vehicles. In
partnership with the Finnish weather forecasting firm Foreca, Bosch will
be using Foreca's road-weather experts to help predict road conditions.
Foreca is one of the world’s leading providers of weather information.
“Combining
the expertise of Foreca and Bosch will lead to a new era of
road-condition forecasting. Unlike weather forecasts in the media, the
Bosch road-condition services take multiple possible forecast scenarios
into consideration,” says Petri Marjava, Foreca’s Sales Director.
The Bosch predictive services package is expected to be rolled out worldwide in 2020. It initially will start with weather data, then as more cars become connected on the road they will augment vehicle data along with it.
Currently, SAE Level 4 autonomous features
determine a car's task of driving using road type, speed range, and
environmental conditions. In the future, Bosch expects to add predictive
road-condition services to the mix. Using rain conditions as an
example, cars will adapt speed to a lower level in advance of any
incident of potential hydroplaning.
Assuming autonomous vehicles
take over the road, Bosch will be able to supplement its predictive
road-condition services beyond weather data with vehicle data. The data
will include information stored on the vehicle's computer system and
will be sent to the Bosch cloud via each respective car brand's servers.
With weather data and future vehicle data, Bosch hopes to push information into the hands of the driver to make driving safer.
The Bosch predictive services package is expected to be rolled out worldwide in 2020. It initially will start with weather data, then as more cars become connected on the road they will augment vehicle data along with it.
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