Toyota car with autopilot available in 2015

The world's largest automaker, Toyota , announced Friday that it will sell around 2015 vehicles able to go into " automatic driving "respecting the safety distances and staying in the right path.

"These advanced technologies help prevent human error, reduce the stress of driving and help drivers avoid accidents, which should help lower the number of deaths on the roads," said Moritaka Yoshida, a Toyota responsible for presenting a demonstration for journalists.

Toyota works on automatic control techniques for twenty years and looks well as other manufacturers and companies in the sector of new technologies like Google , to facilitate the work of drivers to enhance their security.

Its automatic aid highway driving (Automated Highway Driving Assist or ahda) system and establishes a wireless communication from the vehicle to change its speed to maintain a safe distance . It also uses the cameras and radar , among other facilities. All managed by an operating system to keep the vehicle in its lane - the road is straight or curvy.

"The cars equipped with this technology detects acceleration and brake blows those which precede, which makes the flow of traffic," said a charge of the project, Mitsuhisa Shida. "The cars share the information every tenth of a second."

Through another system introduced by the manufacturer, the vehicle can detect a pedestrian or an animal on the road, and immediately stop and change course to avoid it. The system can detect the obstacle four seconds before the potential impact, Toyota said.

The manufacturer has also developed a system of automatic garage : the driver stopped his vehicle near a place, and then presses a button and the car ranks alone.

Toyota believes that these techniques will also help promote driving for seniors , more and more people want to get behind the wheel of the aging of the population and society encouraging mobility.

Compatriot and rival Toyota, Nissan, presented last week similar techniques at a electronics show in the suburbs of Tokyo.

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A concept Chevrolet prepared for the Apocalypse

If Hyundai imagine the anti-zombie vehicle ideal, Chevrolet, he prefers the concept of a well-prepared for the Apocalypse car. Presented recently during the Fair in Dallas, Texas, Silverado Blacks Ops is a concept car which integrates essential to survive against any invasion.

Defined as a survival kit on four wheels, it is a truck that has a raised suspension and an armored body. Based on a Silverado 1500, it is equipped with a winch on the front, an LED projector and integrated towing hooks. The open space at the rear contains a generator, gas cans, food rations and water. But the vehicle also features a solar kit, gas masks, gloves and a first aid kit. Folding shovel and a rope as standard included. Inside, passengers are entitled to a USB port and multimedia Chevy MyLink system. Finally, the vehicle is powered by a V8 5.3-liter Ecotec engine capable of developing 355 horsepower.

Silverado Blacks Ops is only conceptual and should remain so.

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Audi Q1 mini SUV comes as economical hybrid version

Audi is bringing the mini SUV Q1 2016 expected on the market.Beginning of 2018 is also a version follow a particularly economical hybrid SUV, reports "Auto Bild". With electrical support should be as low as 1.5 liters per 100 km consumption here.

The most compact Audi SUV

The Q1 is only 3.80 meters long, so about one meter shorter than the Q7. Technical basis is the VW Polo and the successor to the Skoda Yeti . Despite the typical SUV characteristics such as elevated seating position and generous ground clearance, the Q1 will be no real road car.Also a four-wheel drive is not planned. The best variant of Q1 will cost less than 20,000 euros.

Wide variety of engines

The petrol and diesel engines ranging from 90 HP up to a two-liter gasoline engine with 231 hp for the SQ1 . In the hybrid version of the Ingolstadt combine a 1.2 liter gasoline engine (110 hp) with a 109 hp electric motor.

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Renault and Bolloré electric car will make common

The two French manufacturers have relied on electricity sign a cooperation agreement. The first Renault has already invested $ 4 billion to develop a range of four 100% electric vehicles, including the small city car Zoe. The second has developed its own battery technology, from which he designed the Bluecar for now made in Italy, and the "Autolib 'car sharing system in Paris.

Bolloré and Renault have announced plans to join forces. They signed a letter of intent to work together in three directions. First, both companies will jointly create a joint venture to "conquer and install" new projects in municipalities that want to create their car-sharing system. This company could take over, to begin projects already won by Bolloré in Lyon and Bordeaux.

RENAULT PLANT IN DIEPPE

Then, a part of the production Bluecar could be repatriated to France in the Renault factory in Dieppe. Finally, the two companies could jointly design a new three-seater vehicle, with a range of over 200 km (150 against the current Bluecar).

These cooperation projects are as yet limited. Renault, in fact, has no plans at present to introduce Bolloré batteries in its own electric cars.Renault, like almost all manufacturers, uses lithium ion batteries, imported from Korea. The Bolloré group has focused on another technical solution, called "lithium metal polymer" batteries that contain no liquid. The development of a first Renault vehicle Bolloré could be the beginning of a broader cooperation up to the integration of Bolloré batteries in Renault vehicles.

This agreement dedicate the success of a strategy that seemed risky for Vincent Bolloré. It has long appeared isolated in this sector where investments are very heavy. It is now supported by a major manufacturer.And that a few days of the opening of a new plant Bolloré batteries, near Quimper, scheduled for 19 September. This is a coup for the manufacturer who is also preparing to go public 10% stake in its subsidiary Energy Storage, Blue Solutions.

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