Audi R8 comes with Samsung's e-tron sAMOLEDplus display as a rearview mirror

Audi is one for me in terms of design currently in the lead group and the upcoming electric R8 e-tron is expected to do no harm:

Why am I writing about it on a blog about Samsung? Many current mid-engine sports car, the problem is that the rear view mirror is not practically usable (which is why many manufacturers omit such). This is due to the raised rear seat, and usually also higher in the rear set. Audi is the Audi R8 here, e-tron still buy a rearview mirror and here comes Samsung in the game:

Cost in a sports car like the Audi R8 e-tron of over € 100,000, will play for a few hundred euros a nice touch not matter. Thus, in the Audi R8 e-tron used a 7.7 inches display of Samsung sAMOLEDplus as transom. The display should match that of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 and get in Audis incoming electric racer image signal from a camera at the rear of the vehicle.

So should not fall only slightly parking, but also look good - I'll ask Audi times because a test vehicle Here is the press release:

Audi makes a new technology driving even safer in the future: The digital interior mirror delivers brilliant images and starts later this year in the Audi R8 e-tron in small series. This model has - like the current winner of Le Mans cars - no rear window and thus no conventional rear-view mirror. His high-tech successor, the digital interior mirror, a camera-monitor system.

A control unit ensures that the image is rich in contrast and brilliant always. In darkness avoids intelligent regulation that the headlights of other cars dazzle. The driver can dim the display off at any time. Audi is also working on that in the future additional information on the monitor can be displayed.

The small and extremely lightweight camera is housed in an aerodynamically optimized body, which is heated in the winter. It uses a lens of a few millimeters in diameter and covers a much wider field of view than a conventional rear-view mirror. Your digital image data goes to a color display of 7.7 inch diagonal, which is mounted instead of the conventional rear-view mirror. There is a display in AMOLED technology (Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode), which comes from development partners Samsung Co., LTD and for the first time in a car is used. The organic materials used here are light, with low tension - that is, you do not need backlighting more. The AMOLED technology has been proven to mobile phones and similar devices in the consumer market already widely.

The new displays are more energy efficient, thinner and lighter than conventional LCD monitors. Regardless of the ambient temperature is its switching time only a few milliseconds.

The digital interior mirror has celebrated the 24-hour race at Le Mans in the cars R18 e-tron quattro and R18 ultra with which Audi has been run at the legendary race a triple victory, a brilliant debut. The new system proved even under severe racing conditions to be reliable.