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today’s newsletter, the Design Lounge brings a Tokyo Motor Show preview—an
appetizer for our forthcoming full coverage. Today’s in-depth article is
centered around new human-machine interfaces and the challenges with occupant monitoring, safety systems, voice assistants, smart
surfaces, 3D imaging, and links to connected services, including MaaS itself.
Some of the challenges could almost be called existential; there are big
question marks among consumers and in industry as to feasible pricing for a
smart surface control, an embedded voice assistant, a drowsiness alert device,
or any of the numerous other services and facilities now possible. The recent
Dyson announcement of business unviability of their EV car project points up
these kinds of challenges, and underscores the role of traditional vehicle
business to finance all these new developments.
We hope you find today’s newsletter enlightening, informative, and enjoyable to read. (Haven’t got your DVN-I subscription yet? You’re missing out; come on in and subscribe!). And don’t forget to pencil in your calendar January 28/29, 2020, in Munich, Germany, to join our 1st DVN Interior Workshop around the theme of “Automotive Interior: New Technologies for New Usages”. More on the website!
Sincerely yours,