We have our own innovation ecosystem, which allows us to continuously bring in new thoughts, ideas and to further develop them into new concepts. We use joint crowdsourcing to share our know-how, we predict our innovations´ success on the market using a virtual market model and we file patent applications.
The purpose of the innovation program is:
- Creating new products and services, we can offer to our customers
- Support further Volkswagen Group members in developing and implementing new products and services into the market
- Supporting the Volkswagen Group in formulating patents
- Developing our own products and services including our ability to innovate and boost our know-how
We do not intend to create inutile „demo“ concepts, but want to drive innovation to make our automotive electrics and electronics related ideas applicable in series production in future.
We are using virtual reality to test new car functionalities. During the simulation, we verify both car functionalities and vehicle behavior under various driving situations.
We carry out electronics tests prior to actually implementing these devices into the car. We are able to simulate road traffic and various driver behavior types. Thanks to this, we successfully test numerous scenarios that prepare the tested software better for the real world.
- We are creating comprehensive situations including traffic obstruction simulations.
- We are testing the functionalities within the vehicle also in relation to road traffic.
- We are paying consideration to the driver and other road users.
- Within virtual reality, we also focus on how the cars communicate with each other.
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We are innovating the already present solution to make parking even simpler and safer, be it for the passenger or for the carboy and the highly sensitive vehicle sensors. Insufficient view from the window, increased vehicle size and narrow parking space are a challenge for us.
- We are increasing comfort and speeding up parking.
- We are focusing on visualizing the car surrounding using cameras.
- We are protecting the vehicle when maneuvering.
- We are working on a fully automated parking system.
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Since 2018, every new vehicle is connected to the web. This gives us inexhaustible options to increase both road safety and driving comfort. We are working on both. We are developing new mobile apps, looking for options to improve current technologies and we are designing entirely new solutions.
- We are focusing on the cars´ communication with traffic infrastructure and with road users.
- We are working on making the software systems safer and more reliable.
- We are helping to fine-tune legal standards and are cooperating with the Czech Roads and Motorways Directorate (Czech abbrev.: ŘSD).
- We are looking for options to further develop the internet of cars.
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We are striving for making the car an added value product also from the functional point of view. We are widening the transport means spectrum of use and taking care that drivers have all necessary information, ideally prior actually requiring these information.
- We are focusing on which data the vehicles are sending and which information they are receiving.
- Your car may e.g. announce itself that a tire change is necessary and informs you about the surrounding service stations.
- We are co-developing systems to simplify not only car sharing.
- And we are striving to simplify the access to your car via the virtual key.
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