Hyundai Mobis unveiled advanced automotive parts related to smart cars and self-driving vehicles at the global consumer electronics and consumer technology tradeshow CES 2017 in Las Vegas from Jan. 5 through Jan. 8. The Korean automotive parts maker’s appearance at the CES 2017 was the second year in row. It was designed not only to demonstrate its capabilities as a top-six automotive part supply maker, but also to seek orders from global automakers.
The CES, being held in Las Vegas every January, is widely known as the world’s largest global consumer electronics technology tradeshow. An increasing number of global automakers and automotive parts makers have been participating in the tradeshow since 2010, when automobiles began to embrace the ICT technologies in earnest. About 100 automobile-related companies, about the same as the North American International Auto Show, participated in the CES 2017.
Hyundai Mobis expanded the exhibition size 7 percent over last year to 278 sq. meters at the CES 2017. The company’s pavilion was divided into a smart car zone, a green car zone, and a parts zone.
Spectators at the smart car zone were given an opportunity to experience safety technologies and technologies related to the convenience and health through a self-driving simulator with a real driver’s seat. The cluster of the simulator, outfitted with a 23.4-inch curved display, informs of emergency situations in real time. The panel surrounding the cluster, made with a light transmission synthetic leather, a new material, shows different colors according to emergency developments. The side mirror on the driver’s seat is replaced with a wide-range camera to see the surroundings. The steering wheel can be activated and turned off for self-driving after a fingerprint recognition system recognizes the driver. If the driver takes the seat, it recognizes his or her face and offers optimal adjustments, activating heating and cooling systems. If and when the driver takes off the self-driving mode after arriving at the destination, the car heads for a vacant parking space.
When a person sits in the driver’s seat, the self-driving car exams the driver’s body temperature, blood pressure and pulse, and it can shift into automation mode in the case of such emergencies as heart attacks. A demonstration was also held whereby a self-driving car was connected with a neighborhood hospital through an emergency telephone system.
The green car zone displayed core parts for hydrogen gas fuel cell cars, which Hyundai Mobis mass-produced for the first time in the world in 2013, and has upgraded and explained the working fundamentals. The zone introduced energy flows of the hydrogen gas fuel cell car and the fundamentals of acceleration, deceleration and charging. The so-called V2G (vehicle to grid) technology was demonstrated to charge residual electric power created in the process of starting and break control into an outside grid.
The parts zone showed off Hyundai Mobis’ 30-odd core parts technologies, including the R-SPAS technology for automatic parking via smartphone after stopping, the In-Wheel System for eco-friendliness and high efficiency, the EMB System, a breaking control system combining hydrodynamic and motor-operated functions, and the Around View Motoring System for allowing the driver to see 360 degree views around the car.
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Hyundai Mobis, eager to attain self-driving car technologies, has participated in the global consumer electronics and consumer technology tradeshow CES 2017 in Las Vegas for the second straight year. (Photos: Hyundai Mobis)
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