Sony manufactures a lot of things, from the PlayStation to audio products, the company is taking a step further to establish an operating company called Sony Mobility Inc in the spring of 2022 exploring the EV market. With this direction, the first vehicle to be introduced is the Vision-S.
The Vision-S was first announced at CES 2020 as a prototype and it's almost ready. The company did some 5G driving tests in April 2021 as well as public road testing in Europe last December. This year at CES 2022, Sony announced and exhibited an SUV-type prototype vehicle (VISION-S 02) as a new form factor. This vehicle uses the same EV/cloud platform as the prototype (VISION-S 01), offering a large interior space and variations of a 7-seater.
As an EV car, Sony prioritises a lot on safety and security for the vehicle. The system supports safe driving by recognising and analysing the surrounding environment in real-time with a wide dynamic range of CMOS images and LiDAR sensors installed 360 degrees around the vehicle. In addition, the Vision-S also has a sound system and HMI system, so that the driver can accurately judge the status of the surrounding environment.
Other than that, Sony even implemented Time-of-Flight (ToF) sensors to provide monitoring functions for driver authentication and to watch over passengers. There's also support intuitive gesture and voice commands, and the settings, key locks, and user settings can be synchronised by linking the vehicle to the cloud using mobile communication. Sony is also working with its partners on autonomous driving with 5G.
Last but not least, Sony pre-installed some entertainment features from its own such as the 360 Reality Audio sound system and even BRAVIA Core for Vision S. It's quite an exciting future for Sony and we will see where they will go from there. Stay tuned for more trending tech news at TechNave.com.
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