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Philippe Aumont is a highly experienced executive with almost 40 years in the automotive interior supplier industry. Both engineering & business graduate, completed by many general management programs. He acted as Chief Technology Officer at Faurecia Seating, between 2011 and 2017. Previously he worked for Roth Frères, Johnson Controls and Faurecia, with various position in R&D, Marketing, Strategy, new product development, Open Innovation, start-ups, university, and earlier in JIT, Production, Program Management, Costing, Sales… with permanent assignment in France, Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany, and frequent travels in the US, Japan, China & India. Philippe is board member at SIA (Society of Automotive Engineers in France), and Ecole Centrale de Nantes (Engineering school). Philippe is passionate about automotive product and business model reshuffling (Autonomy, Connectivity, New Energy, Environment, and Car sharing), Innovation culture, organization, Technology scouting, Start-ups, Occupant-centric Design (Comfort, Perceived Quality, HMI, Cognitive…)

Research Project Lukas to Improve Safety in future Mixed Traffic

In the research project Local Environment Model for Cooperative Automated Driving in Complex Traffic Situations (‘LUKAS’), Bosch, InMach, IT-Designers, Mercedes-Benz, Nokia and the Universities of Ulm and Duisburg-Essen researched future mixed traffic in the city and ways to increase traffic safety and efficiency. This is to be achieved primarily through the use of data from…

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Mahle Hella Sell BHTC to AUO

Mahle and Hella are selling their respective 50-per-cent stakes in the Behr-Hella Thermocontrol (BHTC) joint venture to AUO Corporation. The total purchase price is based on an enterprise value of €600m, and the transaction is currently still subject to approval by authorities—closing is expected to take place by mid-2024. Founded in 1996, Taiwan-based AUO’s global…

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Toyota Boshoku Bolsters Seat Frame, and Long-Rail Activities

Toyota Boshoku and Toyota Boshoku Seiko acquired the shares of Toyota Auto Body Seiko from Toyota Auto Body and increased its shareholding ratio from 33.6 to 66.4 per cent, making it a subsidiary of Toyota Boshoku and changing the company name to Toyota Boshoku Seiko Corporation as of 1 October 2023. An opening ceremony was…

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Image-Based Motion Sickness Mitigation

Motion sickness occurs due to a difference between actual and expected motion. It is more likely to affect a passenger than a drive (with obvious implications for automated vehicles) because passengers are free to focus on something other than the view outside the car—reading or scrolling through a phone, for example. Those are the kinds…

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New Force-Sense Tech from Mobase and UltraSense

Korean automotive switch supplier Mobase Electronics has announced a strategic partnership with UltraSense Systems. Mobase will adopt the UltraSense TouchPoint Q TapForce HMI controller in their latest solid-surface infotainment button bars entering production later this year, with further collaboration using UltraSense CapForce HMI controllers. UltraSense transforms driver touch interfaces with their In-Plane Sensing solutions, which…

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SSAB Fossil-Free Steel for Forvia Seat Structure

Forvia has unveiled a seat structure made from fossil-free steel, produced with a very low CO2 footprint, reduced by almost 90 per cent compared to a traditional steel seat structure. It was realized through a collaboration with Swedish steel manufacturer SSAB. Emerging from a partnership forged in 2021, Forvia and SSAB now materialize their common…

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Continental V- Display for Immersive Hyundai Kona Experience

Continental is supplying V-shaped displays for the Hyundai Kona. The V-shape display consists of two flat, high-resolution display panels with a backlight, covered with a curved (‘V-shaped’) glass, which creates a seamless look by optical bonding. It combines the two screens of the instrument cluster and infotainment display under one glass surface. The display extends…

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Volvo-Polestar App Adds Video Options

Volvo and Polestar want to offer customers more video streaming options in their future vehicles, so the auto brands are now offering a self-developed app. The video streaming app is now available for download as a beta version in the Google Play Store in European markets. It enables the consumption of web-based content from various…

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