What's so cool about this car's prototype FM RADIO?? -#Helpful Post

so we're here in New York to check out

the karma Rivera Aliso Edition it's one

of 15 in the world has 981 foot-pounds

of torque and costs an eye-watering

hundred and forty five thousand dollars

which is great and all but like we're

Linus tech tips why the heck are we here

ah there we go

so the back is filled of awesome

prototype tech so let's take a look at

what all of this does and a big thanks

to DTS and photo nation for sponsoring

this video

if you feel like you've seen this car

before well you wouldn't be wrong that's

because both karma and the Rivero are

heirs to Fisker Automotive Karma a car

about as troubled as the period it was

born in two major financial institutions

have teetered on the edge of collapse

and some have failed as a result our

entire economy is in danger the company

was plagued by several engineering and

production challenges legal battles

supply issues reliability shortcomings

and became a political football for the

guys in Washington and the financial

troubles that came as a result of all

that forced Fisker to shut its doors in

2013 but for all the things that gone

wrong

Fisker did get some things right the

accelerated development process of the

fisker karma generated quite a few

technological breakthroughs and the core

design of the car remains a thing of

beauty

even eleven years after its original

unveiling so it's with those

considerations that automotive supplier

launched own group bought what remained

of the original company in 2014 a mere

year after having scooped up Fiskars

then battery manufacturer and then

rebranded it karma so while the Rivero

may look much the same as its

predecessor it's a completely different

car under the surface everything from

the wiring harness to the solar panel

roof down to the powertrain is different

with some less obvious stuff starting

with the FM radio okay wait hold on okay

so this came about as part of Karma's

collaboration with DTS and it's actually

cooler than it sounds so the prototype

radio in here has album artwork and a

like button well okay but Spotify

already has that at which point we

realized well why don't we expect this

from radio the radio experience is

basically decades behind with

programmable stations still being a

feature and the thing is some 80 percent

of drivers apparently still rely on it

for entertainment in their car so with

DTS connected radio your car is able to

use an IP connection to download

metadata for digital and analog radio

stations so you can get album artwork

titles and artists the ability to like

and share songs and of course my

personal favorite the ability to see

exactly what's playing on all the

stations at once but maybe the station

you landed on is playing some really

soft soothing music you're driving down

the highway it's late at night maybe

you're coming home from the airport and

the incredibly comfortable seats at the

rivero ease you into a slumber your eyes

closed this is the situation where you

want the photo nation DMS or driver

monitoring system it'll step in and make

some loud noises to wake you up so under

the steering wheel we've got an IR

camera that can tell the car if your

eyes are open where they're looking and

even take a guess at what your mood is

now currently this just makes the car

get mad when you look away from the road

and plays a cheerful song if you look

sad though in fairness they only started

integrating this about four months ago

but in the future this data is going to

be crucial for self-driving vehicles so

the DMS will give the car information

during autonomous operation so if you

fall asleep it can park on the side of

the road or if it needs to hand over

control to the driver from autonomous

mode it can make sure the driver is

actually looking at the road and isn't

terrified before giving them control and

the eye tracking and head position

monitoring has another benefit that is

implemented today a changeable fov

backup camera so this allows for the

rearview camera to naturally update

where it's pointing based on where your

head is in the car this would actually

be beneficial in most cars I mean you

really can see a lot using the system

but in the rivero it really shines

since the swoopy rear of this vehicle

was clearly designed with looking cool

in mind not rear visibility may be the

most impressive part of all of these

demos is that they've been implemented

in just four weeks on completely

automotive grade Hardware like if we saw

this demo running on a tablet that would

be pretty interesting but these are all

real things

that have been implemented that you can

expect to start showing up in cars that

you might be able to actually afford in

2020 so in the trunk first we've got

power for everything twelve volt and

five volt to run the electronics and the

amp this black box here provides the

connected radio and the processing is

done by these SOC s from Texas

Instruments and all of this can be

pretty easily condensed down to a single

chip like not a single board a single

chip on that board giving automakers

easy options for smarter cars in the

future so thanks to DTS and photo nation

for bringing our team out to this demo

day you don't get many opportunities to

drive around a luxury vehicle like this

when well when you dress like us anyway

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