when it comes to shear technology few cars are as anticipated as the
redesigned out ea8 a flagship sedan that Audi says is the world's first
production car that can drive itself and monitor your surroundings in certain
situations but not yet for the US market we'll get to that last part in a minute
but let's start with styling the a8 is a bit of a conservative redesign it's not
this kind of revolutionary new styling more of a progression of what we've
already seen from Audi especially on the a4 this is a six sided grille right here
it sits low similar to the last a eight grill but it's got a little more
edginess to it you come around to the inside and there's a lot that's changed
if the exterior changes seem gradual the inside has some significant differences
here we'll start with all the screens there's about a 10 inch screen up here
and a secondary screen sits down below it and that essentially takes the place
of outies traditional multimedia interface knob based system it should
make for more natural controls here since it's a touchscreen with things
like apple carplay and android auto smartphone compatibility but I gotta say
we're never fans of automakers just kind of taking physical controls and just
burying them into either capacitive touch buttons or even just touchscreen
sub menus and it looks like the new AAA does a lot of that there's just a lot of
important functions to your climate control heated seats those are all
buried into sub menus now even the fan registers up here those are capacitive
touch as well I don't know we'll have to drive it and play around with it a lot
to see if it really works now any top-shelf luxury sedan has to have tons
of rear seat room and that's certainly the case with this a8l here at the Auto
Show I'm about 6 feet tall that's where I would sit to drive as you can see just
tons of space left over here controls for things like reclining and moving
forward and backwards in the rear seat similar to what you see in the BMW
7-series there's a little tablet here that comes out that actually has a lot
of controls on that for things like heated seats so on and so forth now as
far as self driving everything we talked about in the introduction here
howdy says this is the first production car with level 3 autonomy that means it
can drive itself and monitor your surroundings at speeds up to 37 miles
per hour on highways with a physical barrier between you and oncoming traffic
that's thanks to a couple dozen ultrasonic laser radar and
amaura sensors over all and it's part of a feature called traffic jam pilot now
unfortunately US regulations mean that traffic jam pilot in its full form won't
necessarily be able to make it yet out he's still in talks with regulators to
figure that out so stay tuned we'll know a lot more once the a8 goes on sale in
late 2018
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