The whole DVN team wishes you a happy new year 2025, with a lot of good things for you, your company, interior, and automotive…passengers safe, healthy and entertained.
Safe, healthy and entertained is exactly what CES 2025 I’m attending this week is reflecting as the future of what can be done inside the cabin with drivers and passengers!
This week’s newsletter is completely focused on what is happening in Las Vegas, with first impressions written after a day and a half of wandering around the booths of this biggest-in-the-world technology show.
The major themes are numerous, and sometimes contradictory; for instance, wider displays…and bringing back real buttons. Other takeaways include software-defined vehicles, improved driver experience, ‘AI’, personalized and contextualized interactions within the vehicle, driver monitoring systems going beyond attentional monitoring by constantly interpreting the driver’s emotions, voice recognition and other more intuitive direct interactions, and cockpit and ADAS integration platforms. Watch for more reporting in next week’s newsletter, and in the final report to be published at the end of the month.
As we are starting this year, I remind you that DVN Interior has planned two major events in the first semester, the DVN Interior Workshop in Köln, Germany on 8-9 April and, for those willing to develop business in China, the interior exhibition and conferences as part of the DVN/EAC Enmore partnership in Hangzhou, China, on 4-6 June. More to come on this important event in the next editions.
Sincerely yours,
