Audi
was awarded by Auto Bild and Computer Bild as winner of their Pioneer
Award in recognition of its piloted driving technology.
After tallying approximately 320,000 votes, the brand with the four
rings emerged from the reader poll for the “Connected Car Award,”
sponsored by Auto Bild and Computer Bild, with three awards out of the
eight categories.
In the Telephone category readers rated Audi phone box, which pairs a mobile phone with the car, as the best technology.
For Navigation, Audi’s map display with Google Earth images was voted best.
In the Internet category, the participating readers chose Audi’s
combination of LTE and Wi-Fi as their preferred technology. Audi said
the high-speed mobile communications standard delivers high data volumes
to the car, and the Wi-Fi hotspot transfers them to mobile devices.
“We are obviously delighted at our success in the Connected Car
Award,” commented Ricky Hudi, Head of Development Electrics/Electronics
at Audi. “We have put a lot of hard work into this area in recent years.
I would like to thank everyone who has been involved. Such an award is
both a motivation and an encouragement to come up with yet more
pioneering technological achievements.”
The awards ceremony will take place in early January at the International CES in Las Vegas, Nevada.