Volkswagen is the first major car manufacturer to install the chatbot ChatGPT in its series vehicles. The Wolfsburg-based company has also presented plans for driverless charging of electric cars.
The popular text robot ChatGPT is conquering the car market and will soon be found in the first series vehicles. While competitors are still examining the possible use of ChatGPT in cars, the Wolfsburg-based Volkswagen Group is pushing ahead: At the CES technology trade fair in Las Vegas, VW announced that it would integrate ChatGPT into its vehicles.
Researched content is read out
The first vehicles with the function will be on display at the innovation show in Las Vegas. From the second quarter, VW plans to offer the chatbot as standard in the first markets and in a large number of models. According to its own information, Volkswagen will be the first volume manufacturer to install ChatGPT in series vehicles.
In the future, customers will be able to access the constantly growing database of artificial intelligence in all VW models that have the in-house voice assistant IDA. It should be possible to have researched content read out to you while driving and to interact with the car in natural language. The integration is implemented with the language software specialist Cerence, whose solution is used in IDA.
Robot arm plugs in charging cable
VW also presented another project in Las Vegas: driverless charging of electric cars. Volkswagen’s software subsidiary Cariad is cooperating with the world’s largest automotive supplier Bosch. Together, they let electric cars drive automatically to a charging station and charge their batteries on a trial basis. The vehicles then independently look for a free space in the parking garage.
Bosch and VW see the idea as a solution to waiting times in front of the columns and blocking fees for drivers who do not drive their cars away quickly enough after the charging process has been completed. Driverless charging is being tested in the Bosch development parking garage in Ludwigsburg. The charging cable is plugged in and pulled out by a robot arm.
The system that allows vehicles to automatically find a space in the parking garage has been around for some time. For consumers with appropriately equipped cars, this is already possible in a parking garage at Stuttgart Airport. According to its own information, Bosch has begun to equip other parking garages in Germany with the necessary infrastructure.