At the CES 2023 exhibition, Valeo demonstrated a number of new automotive technologies, including 7 major projects. The specific contents are as follows:
Today Valeo is at the forefront of changes in mobility, both in the automotive industry and in new forms of transportation. As a technology and industry leader in four areas: vehicle electrification, driver assistance, lighting and reshaping the "smart" in-cabin experience, Valeo's technology now extends far beyond the scope of the car. They can equip all new forms of transportation and now even infrastructure, making cities smarter and enabling solutions like enhanced data center cooling.
Extended Reality Experience:
Valeo will showcase its "eXtended Reality Experience" for the first time. After wearing VR equipment, passengers can fully immerse themselves in the universe of their choice and enjoy an intuitive interactive experience.
Passengers will be able to interact with the virtual world through sensors installed in the cabin. Sensors on the outside of the vehicle combine elements of the real and virtual worlds.
The advanced capabilities of these connected systems and virtual reality allow users to maximize their time while their batteries are recharging, so they can work, chat with family and friends, or simply relax.
Driver monitoring:
Valeo’s driver monitoring system, a technology that relies on cameras to track a driver’s alertness by identifying them and monitoring their concentration. This is an important safety and life-saving technology that can make predictions in advance.
The system will sound an alert when it detects that the driver is drowsy or distracted. In autonomous vehicles above level 2, it can ensure that the driver keeps his eyes on the road when he needs to drive in manual mode. This upgrade will help reduce fatigue and distraction-related accidents. At the same time, driver identity verification and emotion recognition will be supported in the future.
All-round lighting experience:
The architecture of electric vehicles reduces reliance on traditional car front grilles, giving designers the freedom to use lighting to highlight vehicle style and brand identity.
At the same time, vehicle automation requires the vehicle to be able to understand its surrounding environment, which makes lighting a key part. Smart pixelated panels can be used to share clear, real-time information, such as a vehicle’s charge level. In the future, they will also be able to provide information on real-time traffic conditions. Dynamic lighting in the car will remind the driver to pay attention to safety in emergency situations. The expanded functionality of these lighting offers customers multiple ways to create creative and personalized spaces.
Immersive in-cabin experience:
The cabin lighting has been reshaped andExpanded throughout the vehicle interior, creating a more immersive experience for passengers. It can be used for a variety of purposes: delivering navigation information, visualizing music, creating a personalized relaxing atmosphere, etc. Create an immersive experience through multiple senses such as sight, hearing, and touch.
Valeo Immersive Cabin Panel:
Interactivity and safety are at the heart of this unique decorative system, which looks like a crystal and integrates human-machine interface, dynamic lighting and backlighting solutions. When the system is activated, the "metallic" decoration becomes transparent and displays the interactive interface. Its lighting can be used to create the ambience inside the vehicle and also includes enhanced safety features such as driver alerts. The system has a metallic appearance when closed and a sparkling diamond design when activated. Its eye-catching combination of design and functionality creates a recognizable and impactful brand identity.
LiDAR:
In terms of sensors, Valeo is the only global company that mass-produces lidar. More than 170,000 lidars have been produced, and the technology is protected by more than 500 patents. Thanks to its laser system, Valeo’s third-generation lidar scanner – SCALA 3 LiDAR – uses point cloud data to reproduce a three-dimensional image of the car’s surroundings, providing ultra-high resolution for automotive systems. It can detect all objects around it, including objects that are unrecognizable to the human eye. It can identify objects on the black asphalt road more than 150 meters ahead, such as tires, which usually cannot be captured in time by drivers, cameras and radars. This means that under normal circumstances (level 2 and above autonomous driving), the driving work can be handed over to the vehicle, even when traveling on the highway at speeds of up to 130 km/h.
Identify road user behavior to improve road safety:
Based on its expertise in artificial intelligence, Valeo developed Pantomime based on its previous pedestrian prediction algorithm MovePredict.ai, which is able to detect the movements of vulnerable road users, such as cyclists and other pedestrians. When equipped with Pantomime, autonomous vehicles will be able to predict the behavior of these road users to ensure safe and efficient driving, which is particularly important in complex environments.
In addition to predicting the movements of vulnerable road users, Pantomime can learn and obey traffic rules set by authorities, such as traffic police instructions. Self-driving vehicles driving in cities often interact with traffic police, which is an indispensable function for them.
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