The term “Audi connect” refers to all applications and developments that connect Audi models to the owner, the Internet, the infrastructure and other vehicles.
Among the new car-to-x applications at Audi is the service Online traffic light information. It networks the car with the central traffic control computer that controls the traffic lights in the city. Targeted information appears in the display of the driver information system. It shows the driver the speed to select in order to reach the next traffic light during a green phase. The time remaining is displayed while waiting for the light to turn green.
Audi developed and tested the principle of the new Online traffic light information service as part of the Travolution project in Ingolstadt and the nation-wide field trial simTD (Safe and Intelligent Mobility Test Field Germany). It benefits not just the drivers by making traffic more fluid, less stressful and safer, but also the cities and the environment in which it is used. According to Audi’s calculations, CO2 emissions can be reduced by up to 15 percent. If deployed throughout Germany, this would correspond to a savings of roughly 900 million liters (237,754,847.12 US gallons) of fuel.
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Note in accordance with Directive 1999/94/EC in its currently applicable version: Further information on official fuel consumption figures and the official specific CO2 emissions of new passenger cars can be found in the EU guide “Information on the fuel consumption, CO2 emissions and energy consumption of new cars”, which is available free of charge at all sales dealerships, from DAT Deutsche Automobil Treuhand GmbH, Hellmuth-Hirth-Straße 1, D-73760 Ostfildern, Germany and at www.dat.de.
Post time: Feb-26-2017