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Faurecia and Accenture will combine their innovation expertise and co-invest to develop products and services for connected and autonomous vehicles. They will focus initially on two areas: cognitive technologies to reinvent the on-board user experience, and services to enhance health and wellness. They also intend to leverage digital technologies such as artificial intelligence, advanced analytics, augmented and virtual reality, blockchain and quantum computing.
Their expertise for these initiatives will be organized within what they’re calling a “digital services factory”.
At the recent Hannover Messe 2019, they presented the Connected Car Lab. It’s an in-car development lab, equipped with many sensors and actuators where you can design, measure, test and improve features with real occupants into static and even driving conditions.
This tool aims at reducing driver distraction and drowsiness by providing feedback to the driver—as by vibration in the seat, for example.
This collaboration illustrates what Accenture refers to as Industry X.0, the profound shift of industrial manufacturing to digital products and services that will increasingly require new methods and processes to produce and deliver them as well as support them in the field.
