so we're here in new york to check out the karma rivero aliso edition it's one
of 15 in the world has 981 foot pounds
of torque and costs an eye watering 145 000 which is great and all but like
we're Linus tech tips why the heck are we here
oh there we go so the back is filled with 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's karma a car
about as troubled as the period it was born into 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 of 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 got 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 11 years after its original unveiling so it's with those
considerations that automotive supplier juan xiang group bought what remained of
the original company in 2014 a mere year
after having scooped up fisker's 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 eighty 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 song 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 of the rivero ease you into a slumber
your eyes close this
is the situation where you want the photonation 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
rear view 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 maybe 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 12 volt and 5 volt to run the
electronics and the amp this black box here provides the connected radio and
the processing is done by these socs 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
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