Future is Unpredictable?
VUCA stands for volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. It’s likely to be the next big buzzword for the automotive industry as a result of Covid, according to the market analysts…
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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…)
Car Interior as Health, Safety Cocoon
The idea to transform the vehicle into a sort of healthy cocoon was explained by Christophe Périllat, Deputy CEO of Valeo, during his press conference at the CES a couple of weeks ago: air and surface purifiers, comfort and wellbeing systems, driver monitoring sensors to keep watch for distraction and fatigue, occupant monitoring sensors to…
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Grupo Antolin in-Pulse is Urban Century Concept
Grupo Antolin have a new virtual interior concept car called the in-Pulse (see video). This interior of the future is Grupo Antolin North America’s vision of a flexible car interior space. It offers a comfortable interior that transforms to provide users with a personalized driving experience as well as convenient storage. The concept car offers ready-to-market…
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Toyota Boshoku’s Advanced Cabin Concepts
Toyota Boshoku revealed two interior concepts based on autonomous driving for the future mobility interior space solution for the MaaS community via their online site. They aim to be the “interior space creator” leading the creation of new value in mobility spaces. The Toyota Boshoku group primarily manufactures and sells automobile-related parts such as seats,…
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Recycling Carbon Fibers is Still a Challenge
Carbon fiber is light, stable, strong, and decorative. It can be used all over the place in a vehicle interior: for seat structures, IP cross-car beam, and numerous others. Carbon fiber reinforced plastics (CFRP) consist of synthetic fibers woven and bonded together using epoxy resins or other materials.But recycling this material, especially in combination with…
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Nio Proposes AR Glasses Instead of Monitors
Will there be no more monitors in the car of the future? Li Bin, the founder of the Chinese e-car startup Nio, firmly believes in this vision. In the future, all information from the cockpit will be projected directly onto the driver’s retina with the help of AR or VR. Nio ET5 (Nio image) Late…
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Biofidel Dummy with Humanoid Physique for Crash Tests
A car is driven into an obstacle without braking. BANG! Sound of falling glass. Sheet metal deforms and anthropomorphic dummies are thrown around in the interior. For years, researchers have been constructing collision tests in this way to test the safety of vehicles or to reconstruct accidents. The only way to understand internal human body…
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Stellantis Infotainment System with Amazon Alexa
Amazon and Stellantis are jointly developing the software for the STLA SmartCockpit which will be used in all 14 Stellantis car brands. The application of the services as well as the user interfaces of the infotainment system will differ depending on the brand and vehicle in the Stellantis Group. The STLA SmartCockpit platform is expected…
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Mobileye Keeps in Lane, Even Without Markings
E-vehicles from the Volkswagen Group are the first to get a lane departure warning system from Intel subsidiary Mobileye, which works even without the otherwise necessary lane markings. Instead of being guided by white or yellow lines on the road, the system follows the line that other vehicles have traced previously on the road, based…
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Autonomous Volvos Coming to America
Volvo is planning to introduce a highly automated driver assistance system. The “Ride Pilot” is to be used in a future battery-electric SUV, first in California. One lidar sensor, five radars, eight cameras, 16 ultrasonic sensors, and a laser scanner will support L3 autonomy in the upcoming XC90, to be introduced this year. Volvo is…
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