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Continental’s Miniature Interior Sensor Tech

Continental has developed an integrated miniature solution called Cabin Sensing, which combines camera data with radar sensor technology and intelligent algorithms. Continental’s Cabin Sensing is designed to allow real-time object detection within the entire vehicle interior. This is made possible with optics and sensors minimized to around 1 cm, integrated directly into the display. The…

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Kurz IMD Decopur Showcases “Shy Tech”

Surfaces and components become more and more intelligent HMIs using wafer-thin decoration and sensor technology. The top of an automotive component can be individually designed using the wide range of In Mold Decoration (IMD) design options: From “shy tech” designs with integrated touch function, to seamless ebony surface. Integrated operating functions come alive as soon…

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Basalt-Reinforced Plastic Seat is Light, Strong

At the lightweight construction symposium of Automotive Management Consulting (AMC) in Kasel near Trier, Germany, a wide range of applications of xFK-in-3D ultralight construction were shown. To achieve sustainability goals and replace petroleum-based materials, the performance seat was wound with basalt fibers, and covered with Alcantara on resource-saving flat panels. AMC Managing Partner Rainer Kurek…

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Ford’s Work With Neuroscientists On Fatigue, Distraction

Ford, through their Advanced Engineering Group in Aachen, Germany, says they are pioneering new brain research that could ultimately lead to a faster, more accurate way to detect when a driver is starting to zone out behind the wheel. Working with neuroscientists from Uniklinik RWTH Aachen, Ford is hoping that identifying the brain responses that…

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Ford Award for Preh Rotary Button

Preh’s haptic rotary knob bonded to a touchscreen display has been nominated as one of 27 finalists for the globally renowned Automotive News PACE Awards. The Preh button has been first commercialized in the Ford Mustang Mach E. More recently, Preh was announced as a Create Must-Have Products & Services World Excellence Award winner at…

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Cupra Born: Sporty Sustainability from Spain

The Cupra Born has been available to order since the beginning of September, and four weeks later production started at the VW plant in Zwickau, where the platformmate VW ID.3 is manufactured. Within the Volkswagen Group, the Cupra Born has been assigned the role of turning Spain’s whole auto industry towards electric mobility, with a…

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Legacy Automaker BEV Design Challenges: Renault

After overviewing Tesla’s design and their challenges as a self-styled ‘startup’ automaker, today’s Design Lounge looks at an established automaker—Renault’s—approach to BEV architecture in context of their branding and design themes. In our introductory photo, you can see two approaches used by Renault design: the new design of the Twizzy and the retro hints of…

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_ Car interiors Unplugged.

34. Post script. Meta-interiors _ A ‘motion paradox’ in film refers to whenever an object is in motion and simultaneously also in rest. At first glance, to some of the latest autonomous mobility concepts, we have the feeling that transportation, logistics and real estate conjured into one unique, alternative, business scenario. In a closer look…

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Tesla’s New Crash Safety Tech With Real-World Data

Tesla says their latest crash safety technology is based on real-world data collection using its large fleet of vehicles equipped with sensors and driver-assistance systems questionably marketed as “self-driving” technology. By collecting data from the millions of Tesla vehicles on the world’s roads, and replicating real-world crash scenarios, Tesla claims to be engineering safer vehicles…

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Visteon-Blackberry Digital Cockpit Solutions

Visteon and Blackberry have announced an expansion of their collaborative work to accelerate the deployment of digital cockpit solutions for automakers and suppliers around the world. Blackberry, Based in Ontario, Canada, provides intelligent security software and services. Visteon, headquartered in Michigan, is a supplier of digital instrument clusters, displays, Android-based infotainment systems, domain controllers, ADAS,…

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