Fighting Motion Sickness in AVs
Motion sickness is a common and complex syndrome. Some individuals are much more susceptible and develop symptoms with minimal provocation, while others are seemingly immune and suffer not at all…
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Motion Sickness: Tough Challenge for Autonomous Driving
Motion sickness is a common perturbation experienced by humans in response to real or perceived (virtual) motion stimuli. The formal medical term for it is kinetosis, and it involves nausea, headache, dizziness, and general malaise caused by disagreement between the senses: the vestibular chambers in our ears, where our sense of balance is rooted, detect…
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Mercedes Maybach GLS 600 Rolling Lounge
The rebirth of Maybach as a sub-brand of Mercedes-Benz is a real success story, especially in China and America. The Maybach GLS 600, presented first at the Guangzhou Show in 2019 and reported in DVN Interior on 5 December, is a luxury variant of the GLS off-roader, which is worth a deeper and updated review…
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Ambient Lighting for a Safer Driving Experience
Ambient lighting in the dashboard, center console, door panels,and seatbelt buckles has proliferated from luxury to mainstream models. Ambient lighting intensifies spatial perception, enhances perceived interior quality and makes drivers feel safer.Carmakers like Daimler and the Volkswagen Group integrate safety assistance systems with interior lights. For example, if a car or cyclist is approaching the stationary car, the vehicle can rapidly…
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Volvo’s Tailored Wool Interior
Volvo Cars says their XC90 T8’s seating material is warmer in winter and always cooler than ubiquitous leather. It’s a tweedlikeweave, which Volvo calls Tailored Wool Blend, of 30% wool and 70% recycled polyester, so it might be even earth-friendlier than vegan leatherlike materials— in close alignment with Volvo’s mission to approach the design and production of its cars responsibly. This wool…
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Geely EV’s Sustainable Experience Architecture
Geely has announced they will form a new company to participate in the competition in the smart pure electric vehicle market. In parallel, the Chinese automaker released information about their new flexible platform basis, named SEA forSustainable Experience Architecture. Involving four years’ worth of effort and almost USD $3bn of investment, the SEA will be deployed across nine auto brands of Geely Holding. The first model to be…
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Adient’s Future of Mobility Podcast
In a recent podcast sponsored by FEV, Tom Gould and John Gomez from Adient presented their views about the impact of new technologies on future interiors. As a major global seating provider, Adient sees a lot of room for growth as autonomous and shared vehicles continue to gain traction. Thomas Gould leads Design and Technology at Adient. John Gomez is…
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Bitsensing-Infineon Pact for In-Cabin Sensing
South Korean startup bitsensing is partnering with Infineon Technologies to launch a new DMS (driver monitoring system) sensor for vehicle interiors. Founded in 2018, Bitsensing is an imaging radar technology company working to build safer smart cities and elevating connected living. By designing cutting-edge sensor fusions and AI solutions, they are bringing an unprecedented level of intelligence to smart living. They designed their MOD…
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Platform Design Comparison of BEV CUVs • Part I
Two recent BEV introductions—Hyundai’s new Ioniq 5 and Chevrolet’s updated Bolt EUV—offer us an opportunity to compare how interior results differ when designing from a brand new BEV platform versus basing a BEV on a traditional ICE platform. Let first compare the numbers. Both vehicles have a long wheelbase to overhang ratio, but the Ioniq…
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_Car interiors Unplugged
8. In search of an epic II_ (this story is part of an ongoing series introducing automotive interiors as an evolution of our habitat)Ralph Teetor, a blind engineer from Hagerstown, Indiana, daily driven to his office, noticed that during routine conversation and while the driver was talking, the car would slow down, to speed up…
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