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Philippe Aumont
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Recticel’s Foams for Vehicle Interiors
The trend towards greater comfort in vehicles is here to stay! Recticel’s automotive foams offer specific tactile and aesthetic characteristics to enhance the driving and ownership experience and help manufacturers to make better, more performant cars. Recticel develops and manufactures foams for components in vehicle interiors with simple, low-emission processing as well as a homogeneous…
Interior Highlights of the Mercedes EQS SUV
What will people do in cars when they needn’t actually drive any more because autonomous vehicles have grown up and taken over? The first steps toward expanding in-car entertainment are already done with the new Mercedes EQS SUV. The new all-electric model, the third to ride on the company’s dedicated EV architecture, will feature a…
Audi’s Backseat Virtual Reality
Audi brings virtual reality entertainment from tech entertainment startup Holoride into series production. Starting this summer, passengers will be able to take a seat in the rear and use VR (virtual reality) glasses to access media such as games, films, and interactive content. The virtual content will adapt in real time to the driving movements…
TechnoTeam’s Night Vision Dashboard
TechnoTeam was founded in Germany in 1991 by researchers at the Ilmenau University of Technology. Their products are based on their work in image processing, recognition, and applications development.TechnoTeam developed and commercialized one of the earliest image-resolving light and color measurement devices for use in both laboratory applications and industrial automation; their products can be…
Eclipse: An Open-Source Automotive Software Platform
The Eclipse Foundation, which champions open-source software development, has formed a new Software-Defined Vehicle (SDV) working group dedicated to developing a software platform for the automotive industry. The organization says the initiative has the support of companies from across the automotive, IT, cloud, and services industries—including automakers such as Daimler and Toyota, and tier-1 suppliers…
Next-Generation Smart HMls from Hyundai and Uniphy
Uniphy’s revolutionary 3D smart-surface solution combines novel algorithms and patented technologies to allow standard materials and mainstream manufacturing processes to be deployed to deliver feature-rich and freeform 3D smart interfaces. The Uniphy solution truly transforms what has been possible in product design. It enables designers to freely create HMIs that are beautiful and experiences that…
Marelli’s New China R&D Center for Auto Electronics
Marelli Automotive’s Guangzhou plant was founded in 1996 as the global supplier’s first manufacturing base in China. Now, Marelli has inaugurated a Guangzhou-based R&D center, and completed the expansion of their Guangzhou plant. As the China R&D hub of Marelli’s automotive electronics business unit, the newly-unveiled facility leads the R&D of the company’s most innovative…
Dangers of networking in the vehicle
As cars grow increasingly networked, they grow increasingly vulnerable to cyberattacks. The risk of being victimized this way is still low for now, but it is unlikely to stay that way. Digital attacks on cars are currently causing more astonishment than horror. For example, when researchers manage to bring a Tesla to a halt by…