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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…)

Low-Power Biomimetic Collision Detector

Biomimicry is the design and production of materials, structures, and systems modelled on biological entities and processes. The automotive world had already seen structural development using plankton-like structure to maximize strength/weight ratio of mechanical parts. As sensors are becoming of more and more importance, solutions are popping up in this domain. Interestingly, energy and package…

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Ford Connects Cars, Sensors to Improve Road Safety

A consortium led by Ford is developing an innovative predictive road safety tool which, using data from connected vehicles and intelligent roadside sensors, could help to make travel in towns and cities safer and easier. It will help cities to proactively address roads and junctions that pose the highest risks to road users. Ford Mobility…

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Cooperative Crash-Avoidance System is World’s First

A UK government-backed consortium has achieved what they’re calling a a world first by demonstrating a collision-avoidance system in which two vehicles cooperate by radio link to steer around a stationary car without human assistance. This successful live demo at Bruntingthorpe Proving Ground in Leicestershire is said to be a significant milestone in developing a driver aid…

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Continental and Osram Terminate JV

from Automobilwoche The automotive suppliers Continental and Osram end their cooperation on lighting technology after the takeover of the Osram Group by AMS.The joint-venture, which was founded in 2018 and specializes in headlights and other automotive lighting systems, is to be dissolved, Continental announced in Eschborn last week. Talks would be held on this and…

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Magna Take Majority in Honglizhixin Seat

Magna has signed an agreement to acquire majority ownership of Honglizhixin (HLZX), a seat supplier to Chinese automakers. The acquisition will expand Magna’s seating capabilities across China. At the same time Magna will acquire a majority stake in its existing seating joint venture with HLZX The two companies already operate a 50/50 joint venture formed…

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Nikola-GM Pact for Badger Electric Pickup Truck

Nikola and General Motors have announced a partnership under which GM will acquire an 11% stake in Nikola (valued at approximately USD $2bn at the time of the announcement). GM will also earn the right to nominate one member to Nikola’s board. In return, GM has agreed to use their manufacturing facilities to begin production…

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Automotive Safety: In Car and On Road

Millions of lives are lost every year due to road traffic collisions—a figure called an outrage by the UN World Health Organization’s Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, speaking at the Road Safety Conference in Sweden last February: “It is an unacceptable price to pay for mobility”. According to WHO figures, approximately 1.35 million people still die…

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