Continental's motto this year is "Innovating Transportation - From Road to Cloud!" The technology company's broad portfolio includes state-of-the-art hardware such as high-performance computing (HPC), software and driver assistance systems that define the commercial vehicle of the future; comprehensive services that increase safety and compliance; innovative truck and bus tires and air springs that further increase the sustainability and efficiency of the transportation industry. Also on display: a development truck, built in collaboration with partner Aurora, containing solutions for the autonomous commercial vehicle of the future.
The transport industry is becoming increasingly digitalized for greater efficiency. With seamless connectivity and software-defined architectures, Continental enables the use of real-time, data-driven services that increase process automation and efficiency, reduce costs and downtime, and meet regulatory requirements. In addition to state-of-the-art HPCs and software, the technology company presents a complete ecosystem that extends from the road to the cloud and enables autonomous driving functions, among other things. In addition, the Automotive Edge Framework CAEdge - a cloud-based development environment for the efficient, safe and fast development and testing of vehicle software - plays an important role.
Continental is driving the transformation of the transportation industry towards a healthy ecosystem for sustainable mobility and demonstrating how material expertise can reduce the impact on the environment. In the Tough RuNR air springs, for example, synthetic rubber has been replaced by natural rubber, which has been supplemented with particularly high-performance EPDM. This leads to a reduction in the CO2 impact of the rubber compound by more than 50 percent with the same performance. The latest bus tire, which is produced with a high proportion of renewable, recycled and mass balance-certified materials, is currently in the pre-series phase.
Autonomous driving has the potential to increase road safety, make freight transportation more efficient and thus mitigate key challenges in the global supply chain such as the ongoing driver shortage. Together with Aurora, Continental is developing the world's first scalable Level 4 truck system. In Hanover, visitors will gain deeper insights into the project's progress and, now that the design and architecture of the Aurora Driver hardware has been finalized, experience for the first time the new industrial fallback system - a specialized secondary system that can take over operations if a fault occurs in the primary system.
In a world where the demand for transport is constantly increasing, road safety is a top priority. As governments and regulators continue to implement stricter safety standards and regulations for commercial road transport, Continental is committed to providing OEMs with turnkey solutions that make their trucks fit for European roads. In this context, two intelligent global tachograph solutions will be on display at the Continental stand: the DTCO 4.1 Intelligent Tachograph (V2) and the VDO Link plug-and-play solution.
» Hall 12, Stand C41
