If you love supercars, and especially those that run on electricity instead of gasoline, then the Apex AP-0 is something you definitely shouldn't miss. This monster offers acceleration from zero to one hundred in 2,3 seconds and, in terms of horsepower, its power reaches 650 horsepower, all this while weighing 1200 kilograms. But besides its extreme performance and appearance, it has something else that is the reason why we are writing about it on LsA.
The Apex AP-0 offers LiDAR technology, which it popularized this year Apple with their iPads ProThis is the first ever commercial vehicle to offer this technology to customers, allowing them to take full advantage of what it has to offer. iPad Pro also in your car. Thanks to a large sensor located on the roof of the car, the car can detect practically anything at a distance of more than 100 meters, which is enough distance for the safety systems to react in time and start emergency braking, changing lanes or taking other unavoidable action and thus preventing an accident.
LiDAR can map the surroundings at a distance of more than 100 meters from the car with centimeter accuracy and convert this image into data that the on-board computer understands. The computer can then evaluate the situation much better and faster than with current cameras, which cars have long used in combination with their systems. ultrasound sensors. By mapping the entire space around the vehicle, LiDAR can provide the control unit with information in the context of other details, allowing the car to respond much better.
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Moreover, the Apex AP-0 will not only use LiDAR technology for safety, but since the car is equipped with six-point belts, rocket aerodynamics, and every kilogram of weight has more than half a horsepower of power, LiDAR will also be used to improve your performance on the track. As Super shows in his videocar Blondie, the car can monitor the track and record all telemetry data so that it can then show you in 3D where you made a mistake and what can be improved for the next lap. This ensures that you have a truly perfect Apex, given the car's name.
What is definitely pleasing is the fact that this new product should be available for as little as €150, i.e. just under four million crowns, which is definitely a very attractive price. We'll see when we actually see the first cars on the road. However, you can sign up for a test drive right now. You do have to make a trip to Hong Kong, but I believe that it will be really worth it in the case of this car.
On the basis of what do you think it is the first car with LiDDAR? We can probably see LiDAR most often in Audi cars, but they are not the only ones, but it is very well visible only in them. It's the two strange rectangular shapes in the front fascia.