How Software-Defined Vehicles Will Get Their Feel Back

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Clever repurposing of existing sensors lets cars measure road-surface friction.

used to tell us what was happening at the road surface. Nexteer is hard at work on such systems, and we're eager to flog their finished product on a road course. But of course, our future autonomous e-chauffeurs will need to feel the road, too, so this tech has a long future.

They're very close to being able to measure degradation in shock absorbers on vehicles with adaptive dampers or ride-height sensors at each corner.This is one of the holy grails of the SDV—a means for a sold vehicle to continue to generate revenue for a manufacturer. The instantaneous road-friction data has value.

 

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