A Look at Audi’s A7 Piloted Driving Car – Demonstration at CES 2014

Audi demonstrated its A7 Piloted driving car during the Consumer Electronic Show in LasVegas. Though the autonomous driving technology is still under development, the demonstration from Audi in a live traffic junctions was stunning. Audi A7 features forward-looking radars to monitor the front traffic, a laser to see upcoming traffic, a windshield mounted camera to keep track of the lanes and a radar at the back to detect either side of rear traffic. According to the reports from Audi, the autonomous driving technology aimed to provide hands-free driving when the traffic is moving at a speed of 40 mph.

Audi has not hinted when the technology will be employed in its car, but when it does, the driver can relax during the moderate traffic.

Facial Recognition

Audi A7 will feature a facial recognition cameras which will monitor the driver and alerts when the driver is falling asleep (not concentrating).

Piloted Driving

The piloted driving is supported with the help of two radars (one at the front and another at rear), sensors, windshield camera and lasers.

Hidden sensors

If you go back to Google’s autonomous car idea, then you might have seen a huge detector mounted on the car’s roof, but in Audi A7 you will not see any such visible sensors or detectors. Audi’s A7 autonomous technology is ready go into the cars with hidden sensors.

Lets hope to see the technology soon, on the roads. Till then, watch out our CES Coverage for Live updates.