“The Hearing Car” - Innovative acoustic sensor technology and more

In the future of highly and semi-autonomous vehicles, the vehicle's sense of hearing will play a decisive role. With “The Hearing Car”, the Fraunhofer IDMT in Oldenburg is presenting a demo vehicle equipped with AI-based technologies for acoustic scene detection to identify, for example, an approaching ambulance. Acoustic sensors integrated into the vehicle technology increase safety and reliability in road traffic - also with regard to autonomous driving.

The inner values of the hearing car are equally impressive: Various technologies are designed to enable a new level of health monitoring and driver condition detection in the vehicle interior. These include a mobile system for electroencephalography (EEG) in the vehicle to optimize human-machine interaction and a short-range radar sensor that records vital data. The technology YourSound, a system for individual sound enhancement in the interior, ensures the best entertainment on board.