with the maelstrom of autonomous cars have gone from manufacturers seek small innovations that make us life easier behind the wheel, as solution to the problems of today, a try to rethink the concept of driving . However, some manufacturers still committed to introduce small innovations as autonomous cars are becoming a massive and plausible reality and way, help develop technology that will make possible.

In this regard, Audi has put all the meat on the grill to provide technology for its next version of the intelligence that governs their cars. And this time it has done also thinking of other actors that will be needed for the development of autonomous car: smart cities. The automaker has developed a technology that, in communication with the traffic system in large cities, is able to notify the driver the exact time remaining before the light turns green .

the idea is to optimize the consumption at each stop But … if there is already timer in many cities at traffic lights. Yes. But the interesting technology Audi is communicating with the driver and the car, which allows the system to automate startup and therefore makes each stop much more efficient in terms of fuel consumption , which may extend the autonomous car to simply prevent it from moving if the light is red.

the new version of the platform vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) Audi is expected to arrive sometime in 2017, but has an added problem: need support, in the same sense, intelligence of large cities , which, unlike technology the car is far behind, but it is an important step. And from there, to have a city 100% compatible with the autonomous car.

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