On 21-22 September will come the next DVN Workshop near Detroit in Novi, Michigan—a real, live, face-to-face event with acclaimed speakers and a large spread of expo booths.
The rubric of the workshop is How to Save Lives in Nighttime Driving, with topics including driver monitoring, ADB, LED, MicroLED, lighting performance assessment, simulation, testing, measurements, and regulation.
The interior-focused session will focus on driver monitoring systems. As an appetizer, this week’s in-depth is looking at these, and how their reliability is enhanced by fusion of information from multiple sensors. As new camera-based systems are being developed, complemented by AI-driven software, new technical solutions become possible. As DMS is expected to be mandatory by 2024, the DVN Workshop at Novi is a timely opportunity to understand more about it and the variety of implementations now and in the future. Don’t miss it! register here.
The Design Lounge this week contains the eighth and final chapter of our look at American-market 7-seater MPVs. Through the Mazda story, it summarizes 60 years of family car body evolution, and how a brand has captured the luxury and ‘carlike’ portion of the current eco-focused movement. As we move to the future with electrification of all vehicles, it will be exciting to see if they also target the ‘authentic off-road’ portion of this movement as customers are already retrofitting their ’80s-’90s AWD MPVs.
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Sincerely yours,