New Audi TT to feature dual Tegra K1 SOCs and a virtual cockpit

[LukaP]

Originaly posted on The Verge

 

Audi utilizes two discrete Tegra processors, one to handle entertainment and navigation, and another to display the vital dials and control the car's electronics. These then work in tandem to power the single screen, ensuring that if, for example, a bug causes a problem in media playback, you'll still be able to keep track of how fast you're driving. Obviously Audi will be hoping that its system is entirely bug-free when the car launches later this year — it says everything will run at a steady 60 fps — but it's a good thing the company is siloing vital functions away from infotainment.

The 2015 TT goes on sale this fall.

 

 

 

very interesting stuff, maybe this marks the success of nvidias tegra line. finally all they needed was to add a pinch of kepler to it

[LOLPhilips]

Yarrrr,

 

Maybe they get the design of the car right this time 2..

Always thought The TT was an ugly line of cars.

 

Would be interesting to see cars integrating nvidia technology nonetheless.

[Tataffe]

 

 

Looks acceptable

 

BTT: Sounds very cool.

[lachyman]

But why TT? It's a nice car (every Audi is nice) but nobody really buys the TT since the car isn't universal at all, I would love to see the new tech on the classic Audi A1-8 lineup.

[JAKEBAB]

This is cool but it's in the Audi TT which has to be one of the ugliest cars it's like vw beetle gone Audi it's just retarded.

[LukaP]

But why TT? It's a nice car (every Audi is nice) but nobody really buys the TT since the car isn't universal at all, I would love to see the new tech on the classic Audi A1-8 lineup.

Well they will probably implement it in the other cars later on

This is cool but it's in the Audi TT which has to be one of the ugliest cars it's like vw beetle gone Audi it's just retarded.

New design a few posts up. Nice even

[matin94]

about time a new TT came out, sick of seeing the old ones

[MetEishYa]

But why TT? It's a nice car (every Audi is nice) but nobody really buys the TT since the car isn't universal at all, I would love to see the new tech on the classic Audi A1-8 lineup.

They will probably only do this on the A1-8 when its time for a refresh or facelift since it is damn expensive to implement it any other way. New Tegra dials means new dash layout, new electronics layout/mapping, new airbag layout for new dash these R&D cost can go into the hundreds of millions of dollar, which is a huge amount to invest in a car that was release maybe only 2 years ago and isn't due for a refresh in another 3-4 years.

[JAKEBAB]

New design a few posts up. Nice even

I saw it's still ugly IMO.

[TheBLOODYTOXIC]

This is cool but it's in the Audi TT which has to be one of the ugliest cars it's like vw beetle gone Audi it's just retarded.

 

VAG Car!

[Hidden Orange]

VAG Car!

Very Awesome Groovy Car?

 

Also, is there a reason why vehicles are becoming increasingly more unnecessarily complicated? I'm all okay for safety features, but we do not need more crap to bother and distract already distracted drivers.

[Thibaudv]

TT as in tech tips? Still, it probably won't replace Linus's Lamborghini...

[Bsmith]

This is going to be very interesting in the car branch atleast. I wonder how it is going to affect techies and modders all over the world. It would be really interesting to see this having the option to be modded by the person that owns it, if I remember correctly the colorschedule was able to be changed how the owner wants it, but further modding would be very interesting.

[rockking1379]

i've always wondered what would happen if car manufacturers used normal processors in cars. Tegra isn't full desktop CPU but still very powerful.

[Woody]

They are probably testing it out in the TT line first. Just like most car companies, they update the least favorite car first to test the style. Just like the Ford Fiesta. Not many people buy them but it was the first to introduce the new style and so they slowly updated the rest. Audi will most like work their way up to make sure the technology is up to par.