Flexible sensor-driven smart vehicles: Opportunities and prospects AITranslate

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Flexible sensors have attracted wide attention like never before in the fast-growing flexible electronics era, because they are easily adaptable to curved or soft surfaces based on their inherent flexibility and simultaneously detect multiple external stimuli. In the field of intelligent driving, they utilize novel conductive materials, including conductive polymers, carbon-based nanomaterials, and liquid metals, to construct multifunctional flexible sensor networks, thereby accomplishing seamless integration with curved vehicle surfaces and comprehensive status monitoring. The advantages are that achieving dynamic deformation adaptability through flexible materials and manufacturing, enhancing system redundancy/robustness/real-time performance through a sensor network deployment, and improving perception accuracy through multimodal fusion. Therefore, flexible sensors exhibit great potential in intelligent cockpit interaction, chassis obstacle detection, and vehicle health diagnostics. However, its large-scale commercialization still faces challenges in automotive-grade integration, weather resistance, data security, and power supply. Furthermore, flexible sensors are expected to integrate with AI models, lightweight architectures, and self-healing smart materials in the future, thereby advancing autonomous driving development, facilitating vehicle-road-cloud coordination, and revolutionizing mobility paradigms.