In cooperation with Foreca’s weather expertise, Bosch has developed the “Popometer”.
The word “Popometer” apparently comes from the racing car industry and means the feeling for the road conditions in relation to the weather. The racers would notice it from the back of the hip out and so put the term popo-meter through.
And so called Bosch now also his latest development in the field of Autonomous driving, Whereby one relies less on the flair, than on the networking. Foresighted driving can handle rain, snow and ice in the future, because you know it in time.
For this one uses the weather data of the company Foreca. In addition, one uses the temperature gauge of cars, the possible activation of windshield wipers or the use of the ESPs, From the sensors of the vehicles one determines the road condition.
From this one calculates possible dangers for the vehicles and this information can be passed on to automated cars on the route. Then the car also knows if it can drive there by itself or not; or whether you prefer to choose a different route, or at what speed you can drive.
One even speaks of a new era of road condition forecasting. Den Bosch has thus found a way to improve the forecast. To 2020 the concept should be introduced. Until then, only a part of the vehicles is networked. However, it may also be more cars.
The new concept is divided into several stages, when it should be rolled out. Because by 2020 you do not expect enough vehicles that are over Networking feature. Only for the road condition forecast on the highway, which is 80,000 kilometers, it needs, according to estimates of Bosch 20 million networked cars. And especially rural areas, where fewer vehicles operate, are then excluded from the forecast. In these cases one resorts to the previous warning.
Foreca’s choice for global weather analysis has to do with its precision. Together they have a worldwide fleet of reference measuring vehicles and one Artificial intelligence, With it one wants to be armed for the autonomous driving.