BOSCH

Mark creates warning system of road conditions to guide autonomous vehicles
With so many automakers struggling to produce their standalone systems, sometimes the "behind the scenes" work of companies that contribute to technology to drive vehicles is not at all stressed. Bosch is one of the giants of the industry that has invested in the automotive revolution, but focusing mainly on the safety and comfort of passengers, as you can see at your research center in Braga that SAPO recently visited.For now the company has just presented an alert service on the road conditions, which aims to keep the autonomous vehicle systems up to date. The service aims to manage the vehicles in a preventive way, to become safer on wet roads or pavements affected by ice.



The technology is powered by a weather forecast service from a Finnish company called Foreca which alerts the vehicle's autonomous navigation system. By choosing the safest routes, the system avoids the need for the technology's other functionality is to update the Bosch cloud with information on the exterior and interior temperatures of vehicles, the use of the windshield wipers and the times the anti-slip system has been activated. human driver to get behind the wheel at the least warning. 



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