Carsickness In Focus
Automakers and suppliers have shown growing interest in motion sickness phenomenon in recent years. Their purpose is to better understand it to alleviate it effectively – not out of public…
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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…)
Motion Sickness: Automaker Solutions, Call for Papers
Motion sickness occurs due to a difference between actual and perceived or expected motion. It is more likely to affect a passenger than a driver—with obvious implications for automated vehicles—because passengers are free to focus on something other than the view outside the car, like reading or scrolling through a phone. So, eliminating motion sickness…
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JDI’s One Display-Two Screens Tech
Japan Display Inc. (JDI) has announced automotive-grade Dual Touch 2 Vision Display (2VD), a technology that allows a single screen to display different content simultaneously to the driver and passenger, while also enabling dual touch functionality. The technology leverages JDI’s low-temperature polycrystalline silicon (LTPS) and advanced optics to overcome previous challenges that prevented the commercial…
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Mobis IDS Has Panoramic Multi-Display
Hyundai Mobis has unveiled M.VICS 5.0, the latest version of their Integrated Driver’s System. The system, first shown in 2021 and steadily upgraded since then, provides a digital cockpit technology suite and presents various driving information and media content while enabling external communication. The 5.0 system, marketed under the motto ‘All You Can See’, focuses…
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VW’s New Hemp-Based Synthetic Leather
Together with the startup Revoltech, founded in 2021 as a spinoff from TU Darmstadt, VW is working on a new type of synthetic leather for car interiors. The material is made from 100 per cent bio-based hemp; it uses otherwise-useless waste materials from the regional hemp industry. The single-layer surface material, called LOVR, can be…
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Asahi Kasei’s Materials for Better Connectivity and HMI
To meet the increasing demand for materials that boost the efficiency of 5G applications, Asahi Kasei is introducing new grades of their Xyron material to the European and North American markets. The combination of polyphenylene ether (PPE) with other polymers such as polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) and polystyrene (PS) allows this family of high-performance compounds to…
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China vs. Germany: Same Car, Different Cockpit Expectations
Many drivers want clear cockpits with dials or buttons…in Germany. In China, customers want flashy audiovisual experiences. China is the most important single market for the German automakers Audi, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, and VW, with almost 22 million units sold in 2023. This brings with it a particular challenge: people in Asia have different expectations…
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New Audi A6 EV Interior
The interior of the Audi A6 is consistently geared towards the users’ needs. The new A6 offers the most ‘intelligent’ assistance systems to date, the largest and best head-up display and brilliant AR graphics. The MMI panoramic display with OLED technology consists of the 11.9″ Audi virtual cockpit and the 14.5″ MMI touch display and,…
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Renault 17 Revived as EV Show Car
Since 2021, Renault has been collaborating with designers to pay tribute to some of their legendary models. A few weeks before the Paris Motor Show, Renault called on French design house Ora-Ïto to modernize the 1970s sports coupe, the R17, as an electric version. This concept car will be exhibited on the Renault stand at…
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IM Prototype Car Parks Sideways
IM Motors is an EV joint venture between Chinese automaker SAIC and Chinese technology companies Zhangjiang Hi-Tech and Alibaba Group. They’ve posted a short video of a prototype car, based on the L6, showing an impressive parallel parking maneuver: the car rolls sideways to easily fit into the tightest parking spot. There’s not much explanation…
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