Generative ‘AI’ for Interior Development
Generative ‘AI’ is seemingly everywhere these days, hyped as a do-everything tool to provide easy answers to complex problems. If that’s true, it’s a boon; auto interiors are full of…
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Generative Design for Interiors: From Many, The One
By Olimpia Migliore, DVN Interior Editor Generative ‘AI’ is presented as a quick and powerful shortcut for easy solutions to complex problems. Today’s and tomorrow’s auto interiors are brimming with complex problems. Consider seats: safety, comfort, ergonomics, design, and ecocircular construction all have to be achieved at the same time, within tight cost and manufacturability…
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Driver Assists Cause Distracted Driving, so DMS is Essential
Two recent studies involving Tesla ‘Autopilot’ and Volvo Pilot Assist have both found that drivers misuse partial automation systems in ways problematic to safety. The more drivers get accustomed to driver-assist technology intended to reduce the frequency and severity of crashes, the more likely they are to engage in distracted driving responsible for many crashes,…
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Airbags and Seatbelts for the Autonomous Age
Sitting, lying down, turning the seat around…all of these are possible in a car which can drive autonomously. The vast increase in the range of possible vehicle occupant positions calls for new kinds of seatbelt and airbag. “In future, belt systems will no longer be docked into the B-pillar, but will come out of the…
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Toyota’s Radar-Based Rear Seatbelt Reminder
2025 Toyota Sienna models sold in the US will have what Toyota calls the ‘Advanced Rear Seat Reminder’, a millimeter-wave radar which detects movement in the vehicle and sends alerts to notify the driver. The system uses a 60-GHz radar sensor on the headliner; it scans a defined area to detect movement in second- and…
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Volvo’s Forgotten-Occupant Radar Sensor
A system in the 2025 Volvo EX90 uses seven radar sensors to detect virtually any living creature left in the locked vehicle.Sensors concealed in the overhead console, reading lamps, and cargo compartment scan the interior every time the vehicle is locked. If they detect movement in the footwells, seats, or cargo compartment, he driver gets a…
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Vishay Expands Haptic Actuator Line
Vishay Intertechnology has added five new devices to their range of IHPT solenoid-based haptic actuators featuring Immersion Corporation licenses, offering additional sizes and force levels. Vishay manufactures discrete semiconductors and passive electronic components essential to innovative designs in the automotive, industrial, computing, consumer, telecommunications, military, aerospace, and medical markets. Providing 12V operation for LCD displays,…
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New VW California is Smart Home on Wheels
VW’s new Multivan California, built on the modular transverse platform (MQB), is something of a smart home on wheels. VW is specifically targeting the iPhone and Instagram generation with touchscreens and apps, space and functionality. The new Multivan offers improved digitalization, with numerous assistance systems and infotainment with a large touchscreen and voice control. The…
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Ford’s Multi-Screen Transparent HUD with Ceres HoloFlekt
Ford, together with manufacturing partners Eastman and Carlex, have achieved application-readiness for Ceres’ HoloFlekt technology and HOE-laminated windshield (see Ceres profile and interview in DVN Interior). Technology from Ceres Holographics was featured in a presentation from Ford Motor Company at the Vehicle Display and Interface Conference earlier this September. The event, put on by the…
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Lotus Theory 1: New Lotus Design Manifesto
Anglo-Chinese brand Lotus has unveiled a high-performance concept car, which they say will serve as a ‘design manifesto’ for future cars. Called the Theory 1, it is completely digital technology oriented, driver-focused, humancentric-designed, and performance-engineered. There are nods to the Esprit beltline in what design boss Ben Payne refers of as a technology line that…
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