HUDs are Central in Tomorrow’s Cockpit
HUDs (head-up displays) are now playing a crucial role in automotive HMI (human-machine interfaces). A HUD relieves the driver of the need to take eyes off the road and refocus…
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Philippe Aumont
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Philippe Aumont is a highly experienced executive with almost 40 years in the automotive interior supplier industry. Both engineering & business graduate, completed by many general management programs.
He acted as Chief Technology Officer at Faurecia Seating, between 2011 and 2017. Previously he worked for Roth Frères, Johnson Controls and Faurecia, with various position in R&D, Marketing, Strategy, new product development, Open Innovation, start-ups, university, and earlier in JIT, Production, Program Management, Costing, Sales… with permanent assignment in France, Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany, and frequent travels in the US, Japan, China & India.
Philippe is board member at SIA (Society of Automotive Engineers in France), and Ecole Centrale de Nantes (Engineering school).
Philippe is passionate about automotive product and business model reshuffling (Autonomy, Connectivity, New Energy, Environment, and Car sharing), Innovation culture, organization, Technology scouting, Start-ups, Occupant-centric Design (Comfort, Perceived Quality, HMI, Cognitive…)
HUD: a Must-Have For Today’s, Tomorrow’s Interior
Head-up displays have been popular since the mid-20th century, and for years were primarily used in aircraft. During the 1950s, attempts were made to test this technology for cars—it really wasn’t ready yet. But technology marches along, and now most premium cars have a HUD. As with most innovations, HUDs are now filtering down to…
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Asahi Kasei Europe’s Work on Auto Interior Hygiene
Covid-19 is changing our understanding of cleanliness and safety in vehicle interiors. A recent study shows vehicle users worldwide are willing to pay a premium for cars that actively zap pathogens on surfaces and in the air. The Covid 19 pandemic has had a strong impact on our mobility behavior. Surveys show that the use…
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Rolls-Royce’s Boat Tail Nautical Design
The Rolls-Royce Boat Tail is the result of four years’ work—nearly 2,000 all-new parts create a unique design inspired by a yacht. When it comes to customization, there really are no limits at Rolls-Royce. Customization is nothing unusual for luxury brands, but with the Boat Tail, the British brand takes it to the extreme. The…
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Continental’s Pillar-to-Pillar Display
Continental’s integrated display spanning from one A-pillar to the other provides space for a growing number of vehicle functions, digital services, and communication and infotainment applications. Continental received their first order from a major automaker for a display solution extending across the entire width of the cockpit in a high-volume production vehicle. Volume production is…
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Dirac Self-Driving Cars To Reimagine Sound Systems
Dirac specializes in digital sound optimization solutions. It all started 15 years ago, when some of the founders were still PhD students at the Signals and Systems Group at Uppsala University in Sweden. They started Dirac, named in honor of the British physicist Paul Dirac, whose name is centrally linked with a mathematical function used…
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Huawei OS in New BAIC SUV
BAIC has become the first automaker to adopt vehicle cockpits with an OS (Operating System) developed by controversial Chinese technology giant Huawei. The operating system, named HarmonyOS, will be installed in the new Arcfox αS ICE SUV. Huawei developed the HarmonyOS operating system after being barred from accessing U.S. technology, including Google’s Android operating system,…
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Fisker Partners With Sharp On Screen Development
California-based EV manufacturer Fisker has nominated Sharp Corporation, majority owned by Taiwan-based Foxconn, to develop technologies to support the next generation of in-vehicle screens and interfaces for Fisker cars. The agreement includes the co-creation of technologies and the subsequent manufacture of screens and components to support the Ocean SUV, Project ‘PEAR’ (Personal Electric Automotive Revolution),…
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BMW’s Newest BEVs: iX and i4
BMW has just introduced their latest battery electric vehicles based on the CLAR platform (covering the D, E, F -segment ICE cars, sports cars and SUVs). The i4 sedan, and iX SUV are entirely new, completely removed (although utilizing some advanced aluminum and carbon composite construction) from the previous i3 and now discontinued i8 vehicles.…
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_Car interiors Unplugged
22. UX, a Universal eXperience _ (This story is part of an ongoing series introducing automotive interiors as an evolution of our habitat) “A person’s perceptions and responses that result from the use or anticipated use of a product, system or service” is the ISO definition of human-system interaction (ISO 9241-210) Speed, is the factor…
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