In-depth Interior

There has been a continuous and relentless push to ‘techify’ most of the new vehicles we can purchase and drive. While already populated with more electronics and software than ever for control and monitoring functions, automakers are also increasingly designing them to operate and feel more like the other consumer devices in our lives that we have gotten used to.

Naomi Miller, a Senior Scientist at the U.S. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Portland, Oregon, specializes in aspects of illumination including glare and TLM—temporal light modulation, commonly called « flicker ».

Consumer behavior is changeable, difficult to predict, and subject to rapid change. So to get an accurate handle on what’s blowing in the change-winds generated by megatrends relevant to the automotive world, we’ve asked in an expert:

Electronica, held this year from 12-15 November in Munich, celebrated its 60th anniversary as a leading trade fair for the global electronics industry. 3,480 exhibitors presented their innovations across the entire spectrum of electronics to about 80,000 visitors in 18 exhibition halls at the International Congress Center Messe München.

Automotive interior shows took place recently in Michigan and Germany; here’s your DVN-Interior topical look at both of them.

Our report on Headliners and overhead systems covers a broad scope of overhead parts and functions, including sunvisors. Here, we zoom in on the visors.

Car designers have a passion for decoration because it goes beyond aesthetics to create an emotional connection between the driver and the vehicle. Decorative elements make a car feel personal, luxurious, and unique.

It all began when the automobile had only just been invented. The Exposition Internationale d’Automobiles, held at the Jardin des Tuileries in Paris in 1898, was the very first event in the world devoted to this new mode of transport.

Novares is a French company of plastic experts based in Velizy Villacoublay, near Paris. They design complex components and systems for virtually every automaker in the world, and many tier-1s, and manufacture them with innovative, cutting-edge techniques for greener, lighter-weight cars in pursuit of the CASE megatrends—Connected, Autonomous, Shared, and Electric.

Ever since the first automotive display—a couple of very small CRTs in the 1976 Aston Martin—the amount of real estate dedicated to displays has grown dramatically. As reported by Reuters, the average size globally of a vehicle’s center display in 2018 was 7.7”, projected to reach 9-10” by 2024. It’s 2024 now, and the average is…10″.