Autonomous, But With a Driver
As ideas take shape as to what vehicle autonomy should look like, sound like, and work like, the United Nations vehicle regulations—recognized one way or another by most of the…
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Philippe Aumont
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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…)
Corning ColdForm™ for Curved Screens
Corning is actively working on commercializing their ColdForm™ technology for curved automotive display systems. Driven by consumer demand for more and larger in-car infotainment and connectivity, ColdForm enables larger, curved, and more integrated display designs for digital clusters and integrated center stack applications. In the past, curved glass has been achieved by heating glass in…
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VW Group Interior Design: Luxury and Premium Vehicles
This final chapter of our series on the design and platform sharing of the VW Group focuses on their luxury and premium brands. That’s Bentley, Porsche, Lamborghini, and Bugatti. Overall, these brands and vehicles have come to define premium and quality benchmarks within the automotive industry and though they do not have cost constraints as…
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_Trajectories, Our Mobile Signature
(a designer’s look at our mobility-centric culture) 3. Urban planning & demographic influences Exponential demographic changes in the industrial revolution rapidly increased rural exodus. Population and goods drew the main paths of flux and cities became the lands of progress. Following Haussmann’s ventures [as described in the last chapter], Berlin’s urban planning commissioner James Hobrecht visited all known urban chefs-d’œuvre and by 1859 Berlin’s new script was…
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New UN Regulations for Autonomy
The United Nations ECE has finalized and formalized three new UN Regulations for vehicles equipped with autonomous-driving capabilities at Level 3 or above. All three standards were developed through the UN’s World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations (WP.29). The forum has around 60 signatory countries, and most of the world’s other countries apply the…
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Ford Tests C-V2X in China Ahead of 2021 Launch
Ford China has begun final testing of vehicle-to-infrastructure communications equipment in Changsha, in Hunan province, ahead of the launch of their first ‘intelligent cars’ in China next year. They first began testing C-V2X (Cellular Vehicle to Everything) technology functions in China late in 2017, in trials at the National Intelligent Vehicle Pilot Zone in Shanghai. Ford…
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Sitech, Brose Plan Whole-Seat JV
Volkswagen’s Sitech subsidiary and Brose are planning to create a joint venture devoted to complete seats, seat structures, and seat components. Sitech will become part of the joint venture. Brose and VW each will hold a 50% stake in the new company. Representatives of both companies signed a memorandum of understanding covering the joint venture…
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Volkswagen Consolidates Infotainment Development
Volkswagen Infotainment is planning a new development center at the Bochum technology campus Mark 51°7 (meaning lat long coordinates). The subsidiary of Volkswagen specializing in software development and vehicle connectivity intends to group its brands and company experts (more than 34 nationalities represented!) together at a central facility to work on software development in a…
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Ford Bronco: Retro Cues, Modern Technology
Ford has unveiled their new Bronco and Bronco Sport SUVs. The Bronco is a model line manufactured and marketed by Ford from 1965 to 1996, then discontinued for 24 years, and now it’s back in a 6th generation. The new Broncos are built in 2- and 4-door versions on the new Ford’s Global Midsize Truck…
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Audi Adjusts e-Tron Interiors
In an effort to simplify the ordering process for the e-Tron, Audi has revised the capabilities of its Audi Virtual Cockpit and the touchscreen MMI Touch system. The MMI system can be controlled either manually or via voice control, and has been further enhanced with a more powerful, third generation MIB 3 modular infotainment platform.…
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