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Can 2024 Buick Envista Provide the Affordable Answer?

At America on the Road, we often complain about the fact that carmakers are offering fewer and fewer vehicles that are affordable for average Americans. But the new 2024 Buick Envista is an exception that both proves and might change that rule. Co-host Chris Teague road-tested the small SUV in the rigors of a Maine winter and found it to be an appealing vehicle with appealing prices. Yes, you can…

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Differences in 2024 Honda Accord HYBRID: SPORT-L vs Touring

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The Honda Accord enters its second model year after undergoing a full redesign for 2023. As a continuation of the 11th generation Accord, the 2024 Honda Accord is not expected to see any major updates. This overview will cover expected details on the 2024 Accord's styling, technology, performance and pricing based on carryover from the current model. 2024 Honda Accord Exterior Preview Since the Accord was just redesigned for 2023, Honda will likely keep exterior styling unchanged for 2024. Key exterior elements such as: Streamlined headlights and front grille shape Distinct crease flowing along the body side Sloping rear roofline and integrated trunk lip spoiler Full-width taillight design with LED lighting Should all carry over to maintain the current Accord's modern, upscale look. Wheel designs and paint color options will likely also remain similar to the 2023 model. Overall, the 2024 Honda Accord aims to provide the same refined exterior aesthetic and proportions as the well-received current generation car. Interior Layout and Features The 2024 Accord’s interior can also be expected to mimic the 2023 model's layout and features, including: Layered dashboard with honeycomb accent trim Large touchscreen perched atop the dash HVAC controls along lower console Available digital gauge cluster Leather seating surfaces on higher trims Standard and available tech should hold over as well: 7-inch display audio Optional 12.3-inch HD touchscreen Wireless Apple CarPlay/Android Auto WiFi hotspot capability Head-up display Wireless phone charging Honda strives for consistency from year-to-year. So the 2024 Accord cabin should provide the same upscale feel and tech features as the well-equipped current model. 2024 Honda Accord Powertrain and MPG The 2024 Accord will likely continue using the same two powertrain choices as 2023 models: 1.5L Turbo 4-Cylinder 192 horsepower and 192 lb-ft torque Paired with CVT automatic transmission 30 mpg city/38 highway/33 combined estimate 2.0L Hybrid Engine 204 total system horsepower 247 lb-ft electric motor torque eCVT hybrid transmission 44 mpg city/41 highway/43 combined estimate These powertrains offer a balance of responsiveness and efficiency. All-wheel drive is not expected to be offered. 2024 Honda Accord Trim Levels Honda will likely carry over the same Accord trim lineup: LX - Entry-level trim with 7-inch display audio Sport - Adds styling and feature upgrades EX-L - Leather seats, moonroof, premium audio Touring - Full suite of tech features, 12.3-inch display Pricing should stay in the same realm with LX models starting around $27,000 and range-topping Touring versions at approximately $37,000 before destination fees. Expected Release Date and Pricing The 2024 Honda Accord will likely follow a similar rollout timeline as the 2023 model: On sale early 2024 Base LX price around $27,000 Top Touring trim approx. $37,000 Official pricing will be announced closer to the 2024 Accord’s market launch. Accord Safety Features and Crash Test Ratings All 2024 Accord models should come standard with the Honda Sensing suite of driver assistance tech: Collision mitigation braking Forward collision warning Lane keeping assist Adaptive cruise control Traffic sign recognition Optional features will include blind spot information and rear cross traffic alert. The IIHS and NHTSA have not crash tested the 11th generation Accord yet. But it should achieve high safety scores on par with the safe 2022 Accord. 2024 Honda Accord: What to Expect While the 2024 Accord may not see substantial changes from the 2023 version, it will retain all the strengths that make it alluring. The refined styling, roomy interior, hybrid option, and abundance of tech should help the 2024 Accord hold appeal versus rivals like the Toyota Camry

and Hyundai Sonata. Interested shoppers can likely expect an Accord experience very similar to the current model when the 2024 hits dealerships. FAQs What's new for the 2024 Honda Accord? There are not expected to be any major changes, as Honda just fully redesigned the Accord for 2023. The 2024 should carry over with the same styling, features and powertrains. Will there be a new Accord hybrid model? Yes, the Accord Hybrid should continue for 2024 using the same 2.0-liter hybrid powertrain as the current model. Will the Sport trim continue to be offered? Honda should carry over the same LX, Sport, EX-L and Touring trim levels for the 2024 Accord based on the 2023 lineup. What safety features come on the 2024 Accord? All Accords should come standard with the Honda Sensing suite of safety features including collision mitigation braking, traffic sign recognition and adaptive cruise control. When will 2024 Honda Accord pricing be announced? Official MSRP pricing and final details likely won't be released until closer to the 2024 Accord's on-sale date early next year. The 2024 Honda Accord promises to deliver solidly on the current model's strengths of efficiency, technology, performance and value. Shoppers can expect an Accord very similar to the impressive existing version. #Wiack #Car #CarInsurance #CarRental #CarPrice #AutoLoans

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Inside the Cocoon: What to Expect from Automated-Vehicle Interiors

We don’t know when the autonomous-vehicle revolution will start, how it will look, or what to expect—apart from a tangled mess of red tape and legalese—but we know it will inspire change, like any worthwhile revolution. In the case of the automotive interior, it’s not difficult to imagine the metamorphosis it will soon undergo will be its most dramatic since inception.

“The traditional automotive interior is built around the driver and the steering wheel for the best possible control and view of the vehicle’s surroundings,” says Klaus Bischoff, Volkswagen’s executive director of design. “The autonomous interior, however, is based on the passenger’s needs. The autonomous interior gives passengers time to do what they want while getting where they want to go.”

Manufacturers and suppliers are on the scent, early in development of basic passenger cocoons that coddle and encourage free play. No idea is too perverse, audacious, or unrealistic, and no one knows what will stick. Some manufacturers refuse to comment on the subject at all because they see no point in discussing something in such flux. Others are less timid, wandering eagerly through undefined space as they engineer solutions to never-before-seen problems posed by the six graduated levels of automated driving that range from Level 0 to 5.

Infiniti’s design boss Karim Habib believes the first step toward the ideal autonomous interior is simplification: strip away excess to create a warm, minimalistic space.

As the revolution arrives in stages, so will aspects of the next-generation interior, first in semi-autonomous vehicles that don’t appear all that different from today’s automobiles. They drive among us even now: Cadillacs with Super Cruise, Mercedes-Benzes with Drive Pilot, Teslas with Autopilot, and Volvos with Pilot Assist offer stints of autonomous driving with occasional human inputs. Tesla designed its Model 3 from the outset to be an “open, liberating space” with fewer physical buttons and controls so it would be upgradeable and hopefully avoid obsolescence in an autonomous world.

The VW I.D. Vizzion (pictured above), Volvo 360c, BMW Vision iNext, and Mercedes-Benz F 015 showcase open-concept autonomous interiors with similar layouts but different aesthetics.

All semi-autonomous cars require means by which to steer. A number of automakers have released concept cars with retractable steering wheels that automatically fold up and store themselves during autonomous driving scenarios, freeing up precious interior space. Mercedes’ director of interior design, Hartmut Sinkwitz, wonders if we need a steering wheel at all. “Maybe we only need a joystick or something that gives you a perfect interaction to really conduct or to really steer and control the car,” he says. “Just yesterday I was test-driving a car with joysticks and enjoyed it very, very much.”

We’ll control whatever steering appendage from the comfort of a three-axis seat that twists and slides through the cabin to support both active driving and autonomous relaxation. The seats might articulate, according to Motivo Engineering, a Southern California-based product design and engineering firm. A fabric skin will stretch over a “flexible skeleton,” and the seats will shapeshift depending on use. Domagoj Dukec, head of design for BMW i and M, says the movable seat won’t debut until the “seat belt issue” is resolved: Will cars be so predictably safe that there’s no need to buckle up? “We’d need a highly intelligent airbag system that will know immediately how each individual passenger is sitting at that particular moment,” he says. “The foldaway steering wheel tech will be the extent of things for the time being.”

Infiniti’s design boss Karim Habib believes the first step toward the ideal autonomous interior is simplification: strip away excess to create a warm, minimalistic space. He also believes black slabs of touchscreen will be difficult to interact with in the changing interior of a self-driving car and that screens have to “be much more organic, blend into the environment—actually have the screen adapt to the space and be used in the space.” Some screens will be subtle, like Continental Corporation’s “see-through” A-pillar concept, which wraps bendable OLED screens around a car’s roof pillars to reveal, via camera, whatever occupies the not-so-blind spot.

Unconvincing models discuss 2024’s business trends in the Volvo 360c’s rolling office, which also features a full-size bed.

Other screens will be less subtle. “Energized glass coupled with augmented reality opens up new opportunities for connection,” says Chris Rockwell, founder and CEO of Lextant, a user-experience and design consultancy. “Imagine the windscreen becoming a window to the world. You drive through a new city, see where relevant services are located, get information on history and culture, and then use virtual-reality services to tour the sites en route.”

The keystone of any successful semi- or fully autonomous interior will be a seamlessly integrated user interface (UI), i.e., non-sentient artificial intelligence (AI) working in conjunction with finely tuned voice and gesture controls. Without a thoughtfully developed, intuitive system for two-way, human-to-machine conversation, there will be no relationship, no trust. User-experience (UX) designers research potential customers to better understand and empathize wants and whims in hopes of breathing life into a UI that understands routines, habits, emotions, and desires.

“The interior of the future needs to be about psychology as much as technology,” Rockwell says. “The goal is for the experience as a whole to not only meet needs but to anticipate them, inspiring connection, collaboration, and relaxation.” But the hardware and software developed for autonomy will go to waste if an interior can’t sympathize with its occupants, who will likely be understandably wary of the “ghost” driver.

The VW I.D. Vizzion comes with a “Hololens by Microsoft” for augmented reality fun.

That trust won’t come easily, but Tim Shih, vice president of design for Yanfeng Automotive Interiors, believes the transitional period preceding full automation will be surprisingly short because vehicles built to accommodate both driving and non-driving scenarios will inherently compromise both.

With the mass adoption of Level 5 automation, expect to see a shift from traditional interior to living environment, where higher roofs allow more fluid movement, consoles rearrange on the go, and automatic lighting reflects the mood; an integrated sensor pack will monitor your temperature, heart rate, actions, and more, and share that information with the AI. “The manufacturer may choose to provide more of a blank canvas than a beautiful completed painting,” Shih says, “and the passengers and users could then determine what happens in this space as much as—if not more so than—the manufacturer themselves.”

That blank canvas will be most common because fully autonomous vehicles will generally be of the shared-use variety and need to accommodate many different people and their varied interests. Trying to imagine all possible uses and adaptations is an overwhelming exercise, which is why manufacturers typically group predicted actions into broad, wide-reaching categories. General Motors considers three areas of use: productivity (email, work), relaxation (read a book, take a nap), and social (interacting with the vehicle or other individuals). Volvo adopted a similar approach for its 360c concept, an autonomous pod built for four scenarios: living room, office, party, and sleeper. The autonomous cabin will amplify whatever parts of life accompany you into it, becoming a spa-like oasis after work, a rolling wet bar for a party on the move, or a bottomless media trough.

The inside of the Mercedes F 015 is a blend of Apple store and high-end hair salon.

Humans stream 500 million hours of YouTube content every day. “It’s clear that users will continue this behavior in their autonomous vehicles’ personal space,” despite voiced desires to relax or work while not driving, says Jose Wyszogrod, chief designer of interior styling and UX/UI for Honda R&D Americas. If he’s right, hungry advertisers and content providers will find a way to stream nonstop ads and entertainment to insatiable passengers, who will blindly agree to “all terms and conditions” as they do today.

An interior uncorrupted by greedy perversions sounds much nicer, if we let ourselves have it. Wyszogrod sees it as a social space that a wanderlust generation uses for learning and discovery. Sofia Lewandowski, interior and UX designer at Hanseatische Fahrzeug Manufaktur GmbH in Berlin, sees an interior that celebrates connectedness and equality and brings new freedoms to individuals with limited mobility. “We all age into disabilities,” she says. “Designing for the disabled is including all.”

Hungry advertisers and content providers will find a way to stream nonstop ads and entertainment to insatiable passengers, who will blindly agree to “all terms and conditions” as they do today.

Mercedes-Benz’s Sinkwitz sees handcrafted woodwork and luminous metals that remind occupants of the analog world they left behind, and ArtCenter College of Design student Santiago Diaz thinks augmented and virtual reality will be digital veils that help us interact with cars in ways we can’t yet fathom, if you can stomach the motion sickness.

“I think we’re going to discover a lot of that, the fact that you have glass around you, showing things whizzing by you,” Infiniti’s Habib says. Maybe windows will be replaced by energized glass, projecting images of the outside world via a 360-degree camera, darkening to opaque when you ask.

Autonomy faces a lot of these odd obstacles. Gesture control, for example, will be a building block of the interior, but it won’t be intuitive to use if you’re traveling abroad because different countries use different body language. But right now no one really cares about those obstacles because autonomy has much bigger issues to overcome and a lot of tough questions in need of good answers sooner rather than later.

The BMW Vision iNext displays images on its Jacquard-weave rear bench through “intelligent projection.”

For instance, how do we protect personal privacy in a complex, hyperconnected world? Will there be global compatibility between competing digital devices, and will in-vehicle Wi-Fi and other entertainment outlets require paid subscriptions separate from what you already have and pay for in your home? Will seat belts indeed be nixed, and who’s at fault if your autonomous car causes a crash? Will politicians embrace or smother autonomy? The list of unknowns that must be dealt with is exhaustive.

“Legislation regarding liability, unconventional seating positions, and alternative-use cases are frequently being discussed but not yet defined on paper,” Yanfeng’s Shih says. “Designers and manufacturers are operating in a gray zone between legislation and speculation. This ambiguity has given designers greater latitude and, from the creativity standpoint, has already unleashed refreshing new thoughts and philosophies around the automotive interior.”

Today, freethinkers unconcerned with convention can disrupt and inspire and be wrong without any real consequence because maybe their dream becomes a reality in the new automotive era. “It’s fantastic to be able to think that our generation could really be the one that changes the way you live in a product that’s more than 100 years old,” Habib says, “but it’s daunting, definitely. There’s a big chance of failure with all the startups and all the established companies creating new things. Some are going to win, and some are going to lose.”

Motivo Engineering CEO Praveen Penmetsa says the company that delivers the most engaging mobility experience will rule the automotive world. “However, we don’t know what that secret combination is yet,” he is quick to point out. “The interior of the automobile will dominate our lives and will be our work desk, play space, creative blank sheet. The car will be more integral than ever before, not less like some people are saying. We’ll work more in cars, have more fun, and will have more life experiences in a car than we could have ever imagined.”

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Inside the Cocoon: What to Expect from Automated-Vehicle Interiors

We don’t know when the autonomous-vehicle revolution will start, how it will look, or what to expect—apart from a tangled mess of red tape and legalese—but we know it will inspire change, like any worthwhile revolution. In the case of the automotive interior, it’s not difficult to imagine the metamorphosis it will soon undergo will be its most dramatic since inception.

“The traditional automotive interior is built around the driver and the steering wheel for the best possible control and view of the vehicle’s surroundings,” says Klaus Bischoff, Volkswagen’s executive director of design. “The autonomous interior, however, is based on the passenger’s needs. The autonomous interior gives passengers time to do what they want while getting where they want to go.”

Manufacturers and suppliers are on the scent, early in development of basic passenger cocoons that coddle and encourage free play. No idea is too perverse, audacious, or unrealistic, and no one knows what will stick. Some manufacturers refuse to comment on the subject at all because they see no point in discussing something in such flux. Others are less timid, wandering eagerly through undefined space as they engineer solutions to never-before-seen problems posed by the six graduated levels of automated driving that range from Level 0 to 5.

Infiniti’s design boss Karim Habib believes the first step toward the ideal autonomous interior is simplification: strip away excess to create a warm, minimalistic space.

As the revolution arrives in stages, so will aspects of the next-generation interior, first in semi-autonomous vehicles that don’t appear all that different from today’s automobiles. They drive among us even now: Cadillacs with Super Cruise, Mercedes-Benzes with Drive Pilot, Teslas with Autopilot, and Volvos with Pilot Assist offer stints of autonomous driving with occasional human inputs. Tesla designed its Model 3 from the outset to be an “open, liberating space” with fewer physical buttons and controls so it would be upgradeable and hopefully avoid obsolescence in an autonomous world.

The VW I.D. Vizzion (pictured above), Volvo 360c, BMW Vision iNext, and Mercedes-Benz F 015 showcase open-concept autonomous interiors with similar layouts but different aesthetics.

All semi-autonomous cars require means by which to steer. A number of automakers have released concept cars with retractable steering wheels that automatically fold up and store themselves during autonomous driving scenarios, freeing up precious interior space. Mercedes’ director of interior design, Hartmut Sinkwitz, wonders if we need a steering wheel at all. “Maybe we only need a joystick or something that gives you a perfect interaction to really conduct or to really steer and control the car,” he says. “Just yesterday I was test-driving a car with joysticks and enjoyed it very, very much.”

We’ll control whatever steering appendage from the comfort of a three-axis seat that twists and slides through the cabin to support both active driving and autonomous relaxation. The seats might articulate, according to Motivo Engineering, a Southern California-based product design and engineering firm. A fabric skin will stretch over a “flexible skeleton,” and the seats will shapeshift depending on use. Domagoj Dukec, head of design for BMW i and M, says the movable seat won’t debut until the “seat belt issue” is resolved: Will cars be so predictably safe that there’s no need to buckle up? “We’d need a highly intelligent airbag system that will know immediately how each individual passenger is sitting at that particular moment,” he says. “The foldaway steering wheel tech will be the extent of things for the time being.”

Infiniti’s design boss Karim Habib believes the first step toward the ideal autonomous interior is simplification: strip away excess to create a warm, minimalistic space. He also believes black slabs of touchscreen will be difficult to interact with in the changing interior of a self-driving car and that screens have to “be much more organic, blend into the environment—actually have the screen adapt to the space and be used in the space.” Some screens will be subtle, like Continental Corporation’s “see-through” A-pillar concept, which wraps bendable OLED screens around a car’s roof pillars to reveal, via camera, whatever occupies the not-so-blind spot.

Unconvincing models discuss 2024’s business trends in the Volvo 360c’s rolling office, which also features a full-size bed.

Other screens will be less subtle. “Energized glass coupled with augmented reality opens up new opportunities for connection,” says Chris Rockwell, founder and CEO of Lextant, a user-experience and design consultancy. “Imagine the windscreen becoming a window to the world. You drive through a new city, see where relevant services are located, get information on history and culture, and then use virtual-reality services to tour the sites en route.”

The keystone of any successful semi- or fully autonomous interior will be a seamlessly integrated user interface (UI), i.e., non-sentient artificial intelligence (AI) working in conjunction with finely tuned voice and gesture controls. Without a thoughtfully developed, intuitive system for two-way, human-to-machine conversation, there will be no relationship, no trust. User-experience (UX) designers research potential customers to better understand and empathize wants and whims in hopes of breathing life into a UI that understands routines, habits, emotions, and desires.

“The interior of the future needs to be about psychology as much as technology,” Rockwell says. “The goal is for the experience as a whole to not only meet needs but to anticipate them, inspiring connection, collaboration, and relaxation.” But the hardware and software developed for autonomy will go to waste if an interior can’t sympathize with its occupants, who will likely be understandably wary of the “ghost” driver.

The VW I.D. Vizzion comes with a “Hololens by Microsoft” for augmented reality fun.

That trust won’t come easily, but Tim Shih, vice president of design for Yanfeng Automotive Interiors, believes the transitional period preceding full automation will be surprisingly short because vehicles built to accommodate both driving and non-driving scenarios will inherently compromise both.

With the mass adoption of Level 5 automation, expect to see a shift from traditional interior to living environment, where higher roofs allow more fluid movement, consoles rearrange on the go, and automatic lighting reflects the mood; an integrated sensor pack will monitor your temperature, heart rate, actions, and more, and share that information with the AI. “The manufacturer may choose to provide more of a blank canvas than a beautiful completed painting,” Shih says, “and the passengers and users could then determine what happens in this space as much as—if not more so than—the manufacturer themselves.”

That blank canvas will be most common because fully autonomous vehicles will generally be of the shared-use variety and need to accommodate many different people and their varied interests. Trying to imagine all possible uses and adaptations is an overwhelming exercise, which is why manufacturers typically group predicted actions into broad, wide-reaching categories. General Motors considers three areas of use: productivity (email, work), relaxation (read a book, take a nap), and social (interacting with the vehicle or other individuals). Volvo adopted a similar approach for its 360c concept, an autonomous pod built for four scenarios: living room, office, party, and sleeper. The autonomous cabin will amplify whatever parts of life accompany you into it, becoming a spa-like oasis after work, a rolling wet bar for a party on the move, or a bottomless media trough.

The inside of the Mercedes F 015 is a blend of Apple store and high-end hair salon.

Humans stream 500 million hours of YouTube content every day. “It’s clear that users will continue this behavior in their autonomous vehicles’ personal space,” despite voiced desires to relax or work while not driving, says Jose Wyszogrod, chief designer of interior styling and UX/UI for Honda R&D Americas. If he’s right, hungry advertisers and content providers will find a way to stream nonstop ads and entertainment to insatiable passengers, who will blindly agree to “all terms and conditions” as they do today.

An interior uncorrupted by greedy perversions sounds much nicer, if we let ourselves have it. Wyszogrod sees it as a social space that a wanderlust generation uses for learning and discovery. Sofia Lewandowski, interior and UX designer at Hanseatische Fahrzeug Manufaktur GmbH in Berlin, sees an interior that celebrates connectedness and equality and brings new freedoms to individuals with limited mobility. “We all age into disabilities,” she says. “Designing for the disabled is including all.”

Hungry advertisers and content providers will find a way to stream nonstop ads and entertainment to insatiable passengers, who will blindly agree to “all terms and conditions” as they do today.

Mercedes-Benz’s Sinkwitz sees handcrafted woodwork and luminous metals that remind occupants of the analog world they left behind, and ArtCenter College of Design student Santiago Diaz thinks augmented and virtual reality will be digital veils that help us interact with cars in ways we can’t yet fathom, if you can stomach the motion sickness.

“I think we’re going to discover a lot of that, the fact that you have glass around you, showing things whizzing by you,” Infiniti’s Habib says. Maybe windows will be replaced by energized glass, projecting images of the outside world via a 360-degree camera, darkening to opaque when you ask.

Autonomy faces a lot of these odd obstacles. Gesture control, for example, will be a building block of the interior, but it won’t be intuitive to use if you’re traveling abroad because different countries use different body language. But right now no one really cares about those obstacles because autonomy has much bigger issues to overcome and a lot of tough questions in need of good answers sooner rather than later.

The BMW Vision iNext displays images on its Jacquard-weave rear bench through “intelligent projection.”

For instance, how do we protect personal privacy in a complex, hyperconnected world? Will there be global compatibility between competing digital devices, and will in-vehicle Wi-Fi and other entertainment outlets require paid subscriptions separate from what you already have and pay for in your home? Will seat belts indeed be nixed, and who’s at fault if your autonomous car causes a crash? Will politicians embrace or smother autonomy? The list of unknowns that must be dealt with is exhaustive.

“Legislation regarding liability, unconventional seating positions, and alternative-use cases are frequently being discussed but not yet defined on paper,” Yanfeng’s Shih says. “Designers and manufacturers are operating in a gray zone between legislation and speculation. This ambiguity has given designers greater latitude and, from the creativity standpoint, has already unleashed refreshing new thoughts and philosophies around the automotive interior.”

Today, freethinkers unconcerned with convention can disrupt and inspire and be wrong without any real consequence because maybe their dream becomes a reality in the new automotive era. “It’s fantastic to be able to think that our generation could really be the one that changes the way you live in a product that’s more than 100 years old,” Habib says, “but it’s daunting, definitely. There’s a big chance of failure with all the startups and all the established companies creating new things. Some are going to win, and some are going to lose.”

Motivo Engineering CEO Praveen Penmetsa says the company that delivers the most engaging mobility experience will rule the automotive world. “However, we don’t know what that secret combination is yet,” he is quick to point out. “The interior of the automobile will dominate our lives and will be our work desk, play space, creative blank sheet. The car will be more integral than ever before, not less like some people are saying. We’ll work more in cars, have more fun, and will have more life experiences in a car than we could have ever imagined.”

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Inside the Cocoon: What to Expect from Automated-Vehicle Interiors

We don’t know when the autonomous-vehicle revolution will start, how it will look, or what to expect—apart from a tangled mess of red tape and legalese—but we know it will inspire change, like any worthwhile revolution. In the case of the automotive interior, it’s not difficult to imagine the metamorphosis it will soon undergo will be its most dramatic since inception.

“The traditional automotive interior is built around the driver and the steering wheel for the best possible control and view of the vehicle’s surroundings,” says Klaus Bischoff, Volkswagen’s executive director of design. “The autonomous interior, however, is based on the passenger’s needs. The autonomous interior gives passengers time to do what they want while getting where they want to go.”

Manufacturers and suppliers are on the scent, early in development of basic passenger cocoons that coddle and encourage free play. No idea is too perverse, audacious, or unrealistic, and no one knows what will stick. Some manufacturers refuse to comment on the subject at all because they see no point in discussing something in such flux. Others are less timid, wandering eagerly through undefined space as they engineer solutions to never-before-seen problems posed by the six graduated levels of automated driving that range from Level 0 to 5.

Infiniti’s design boss Karim Habib believes the first step toward the ideal autonomous interior is simplification: strip away excess to create a warm, minimalistic space.

As the revolution arrives in stages, so will aspects of the next-generation interior, first in semi-autonomous vehicles that don’t appear all that different from today’s automobiles. They drive among us even now: Cadillacs with Super Cruise, Mercedes-Benzes with Drive Pilot, Teslas with Autopilot, and Volvos with Pilot Assist offer stints of autonomous driving with occasional human inputs. Tesla designed its Model 3 from the outset to be an “open, liberating space” with fewer physical buttons and controls so it would be upgradeable and hopefully avoid obsolescence in an autonomous world.

The VW I.D. Vizzion (pictured above), Volvo 360c, BMW Vision iNext, and Mercedes-Benz F 015 showcase open-concept autonomous interiors with similar layouts but different aesthetics.

All semi-autonomous cars require means by which to steer. A number of automakers have released concept cars with retractable steering wheels that automatically fold up and store themselves during autonomous driving scenarios, freeing up precious interior space. Mercedes’ director of interior design, Hartmut Sinkwitz, wonders if we need a steering wheel at all. “Maybe we only need a joystick or something that gives you a perfect interaction to really conduct or to really steer and control the car,” he says. “Just yesterday I was test-driving a car with joysticks and enjoyed it very, very much.”

We’ll control whatever steering appendage from the comfort of a three-axis seat that twists and slides through the cabin to support both active driving and autonomous relaxation. The seats might articulate, according to Motivo Engineering, a Southern California-based product design and engineering firm. A fabric skin will stretch over a “flexible skeleton,” and the seats will shapeshift depending on use. Domagoj Dukec, head of design for BMW i and M, says the movable seat won’t debut until the “seat belt issue” is resolved: Will cars be so predictably safe that there’s no need to buckle up? “We’d need a highly intelligent airbag system that will know immediately how each individual passenger is sitting at that particular moment,” he says. “The foldaway steering wheel tech will be the extent of things for the time being.”

Infiniti’s design boss Karim Habib believes the first step toward the ideal autonomous interior is simplification: strip away excess to create a warm, minimalistic space. He also believes black slabs of touchscreen will be difficult to interact with in the changing interior of a self-driving car and that screens have to “be much more organic, blend into the environment—actually have the screen adapt to the space and be used in the space.” Some screens will be subtle, like Continental Corporation’s “see-through” A-pillar concept, which wraps bendable OLED screens around a car’s roof pillars to reveal, via camera, whatever occupies the not-so-blind spot.

Unconvincing models discuss 2024’s business trends in the Volvo 360c’s rolling office, which also features a full-size bed.

Other screens will be less subtle. “Energized glass coupled with augmented reality opens up new opportunities for connection,” says Chris Rockwell, founder and CEO of Lextant, a user-experience and design consultancy. “Imagine the windscreen becoming a window to the world. You drive through a new city, see where relevant services are located, get information on history and culture, and then use virtual-reality services to tour the sites en route.”

The keystone of any successful semi- or fully autonomous interior will be a seamlessly integrated user interface (UI), i.e., non-sentient artificial intelligence (AI) working in conjunction with finely tuned voice and gesture controls. Without a thoughtfully developed, intuitive system for two-way, human-to-machine conversation, there will be no relationship, no trust. User-experience (UX) designers research potential customers to better understand and empathize wants and whims in hopes of breathing life into a UI that understands routines, habits, emotions, and desires.

“The interior of the future needs to be about psychology as much as technology,” Rockwell says. “The goal is for the experience as a whole to not only meet needs but to anticipate them, inspiring connection, collaboration, and relaxation.” But the hardware and software developed for autonomy will go to waste if an interior can’t sympathize with its occupants, who will likely be understandably wary of the “ghost” driver.

The VW I.D. Vizzion comes with a “Hololens by Microsoft” for augmented reality fun.

That trust won’t come easily, but Tim Shih, vice president of design for Yanfeng Automotive Interiors, believes the transitional period preceding full automation will be surprisingly short because vehicles built to accommodate both driving and non-driving scenarios will inherently compromise both.

With the mass adoption of Level 5 automation, expect to see a shift from traditional interior to living environment, where higher roofs allow more fluid movement, consoles rearrange on the go, and automatic lighting reflects the mood; an integrated sensor pack will monitor your temperature, heart rate, actions, and more, and share that information with the AI. “The manufacturer may choose to provide more of a blank canvas than a beautiful completed painting,” Shih says, “and the passengers and users could then determine what happens in this space as much as—if not more so than—the manufacturer themselves.”

That blank canvas will be most common because fully autonomous vehicles will generally be of the shared-use variety and need to accommodate many different people and their varied interests. Trying to imagine all possible uses and adaptations is an overwhelming exercise, which is why manufacturers typically group predicted actions into broad, wide-reaching categories. General Motors considers three areas of use: productivity (email, work), relaxation (read a book, take a nap), and social (interacting with the vehicle or other individuals). Volvo adopted a similar approach for its 360c concept, an autonomous pod built for four scenarios: living room, office, party, and sleeper. The autonomous cabin will amplify whatever parts of life accompany you into it, becoming a spa-like oasis after work, a rolling wet bar for a party on the move, or a bottomless media trough.

The inside of the Mercedes F 015 is a blend of Apple store and high-end hair salon.

Humans stream 500 million hours of YouTube content every day. “It’s clear that users will continue this behavior in their autonomous vehicles’ personal space,” despite voiced desires to relax or work while not driving, says Jose Wyszogrod, chief designer of interior styling and UX/UI for Honda R&D Americas. If he’s right, hungry advertisers and content providers will find a way to stream nonstop ads and entertainment to insatiable passengers, who will blindly agree to “all terms and conditions” as they do today.

An interior uncorrupted by greedy perversions sounds much nicer, if we let ourselves have it. Wyszogrod sees it as a social space that a wanderlust generation uses for learning and discovery. Sofia Lewandowski, interior and UX designer at Hanseatische Fahrzeug Manufaktur GmbH in Berlin, sees an interior that celebrates connectedness and equality and brings new freedoms to individuals with limited mobility. “We all age into disabilities,” she says. “Designing for the disabled is including all.”

Hungry advertisers and content providers will find a way to stream nonstop ads and entertainment to insatiable passengers, who will blindly agree to “all terms and conditions” as they do today.

Mercedes-Benz’s Sinkwitz sees handcrafted woodwork and luminous metals that remind occupants of the analog world they left behind, and ArtCenter College of Design student Santiago Diaz thinks augmented and virtual reality will be digital veils that help us interact with cars in ways we can’t yet fathom, if you can stomach the motion sickness.

“I think we’re going to discover a lot of that, the fact that you have glass around you, showing things whizzing by you,” Infiniti’s Habib says. Maybe windows will be replaced by energized glass, projecting images of the outside world via a 360-degree camera, darkening to opaque when you ask.

Autonomy faces a lot of these odd obstacles. Gesture control, for example, will be a building block of the interior, but it won’t be intuitive to use if you’re traveling abroad because different countries use different body language. But right now no one really cares about those obstacles because autonomy has much bigger issues to overcome and a lot of tough questions in need of good answers sooner rather than later.

The BMW Vision iNext displays images on its Jacquard-weave rear bench through “intelligent projection.”

For instance, how do we protect personal privacy in a complex, hyperconnected world? Will there be global compatibility between competing digital devices, and will in-vehicle Wi-Fi and other entertainment outlets require paid subscriptions separate from what you already have and pay for in your home? Will seat belts indeed be nixed, and who’s at fault if your autonomous car causes a crash? Will politicians embrace or smother autonomy? The list of unknowns that must be dealt with is exhaustive.

“Legislation regarding liability, unconventional seating positions, and alternative-use cases are frequently being discussed but not yet defined on paper,” Yanfeng’s Shih says. “Designers and manufacturers are operating in a gray zone between legislation and speculation. This ambiguity has given designers greater latitude and, from the creativity standpoint, has already unleashed refreshing new thoughts and philosophies around the automotive interior.”

Today, freethinkers unconcerned with convention can disrupt and inspire and be wrong without any real consequence because maybe their dream becomes a reality in the new automotive era. “It’s fantastic to be able to think that our generation could really be the one that changes the way you live in a product that’s more than 100 years old,” Habib says, “but it’s daunting, definitely. There’s a big chance of failure with all the startups and all the established companies creating new things. Some are going to win, and some are going to lose.”

Motivo Engineering CEO Praveen Penmetsa says the company that delivers the most engaging mobility experience will rule the automotive world. “However, we don’t know what that secret combination is yet,” he is quick to point out. “The interior of the automobile will dominate our lives and will be our work desk, play space, creative blank sheet. The car will be more integral than ever before, not less like some people are saying. We’ll work more in cars, have more fun, and will have more life experiences in a car than we could have ever imagined.”

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Factors such as growing number of households, economic prosperity, increase in people holding driving licenses and growth in employment contributes to the increasing passenger car demand.

Furthermore, motor vehicle safety regulations and government mandates such as air bags and ABS is expected to accelerate the technological adoption. The European New Car Assessment Program requires vehicles to be equipped with emergency autonomous braking to receive highest safety rating. Asian countries such as India, China and Japan are also planning to introduce such mandates. The manufacturers are required to abide by such regulations and are expected to spur the industry demand.

Furthermore, according to Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) approximately 1 in 5 injury crashes and 1 in 3 fatal crashes could be prevented if all vehicles are equipped with systems such as adaptive headlights, blind spot monitoring, lane departure warning and forward collision warning. Moreover, they estimated that as many as 1.9 million crashes could be mitigated or prevented each year. This growing need to reduce injuries and deaths is expected to drive the demand for such systems.

The devices were debuted on high priced cars but are now becoming increasingly available on low cost cars such as Honda Accord Hybrid Touring and Mazda 6 Grand tuning. Growing awareness about passenger, driver and pedestrian safety is expected to increase the number of users opting for these cars .As these cars offer advance features with affordable prices it is expected to benefit the market over the next eight years.

On the basis of technology, market is segmented into adaptive cruise control, automated parking, forward collision warning/prevention, lane departure warning/prevention and blind spot detection/assist. These technologies alert the user by triggering warning lights, sound and sometimes physical alerts if they sense dangerous situations. Furthermore, they can even take actions such as steering back in lane and applying breaks to avoid collision.

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On the basis of sensor technology, market is segmented into radar, LiDAR, camera, infrared and ultrasonic. The assistance systems use signals from these sensors around the vehicle to support the driver and can even take over some tasks by their help.

North America is expected to witness significant growth over the forecast period owing to the presence of stringent safety regulations. For instance, it is mandatory for all passenger cars in North America and Europe to be installed with tire pressure monitoring systems. These regulations relating to pedestrian, vehicle, driver and vehicle safety compel manufacturers to include the features as default offerings.

Denso Corporation, Continental AG, Delphi Automotive PLC and Robert Bosch GmbH are the key industry players. Suppliers use product differentiation as well as strategic alliances, mergers and acquisition to gain competitive advantage.

In April 2016, Denso Corporation announced that it has formed joint venture with eSOL Co.Ltd. and NEC Communication Systems, Ltd called AUBASS CO., LTD, in Tokyo, Japan to develop basic software that can support high-quality security, high-speed data communication and high-performance microcomputers for advancing in vehicle systems used for automated driving and control actions.

In November 2014, Delphi Automotive PLC announced that it has partnered with Ottomatika, Inc. which provides advanced automated driving software to jointly develop technology to accelerate the product market.

In March 2016, Continental AG announced acquisition of Hi-Res 3D Flash LIDAR. The acquisition was aimed to enhance the company’s product portfolio for advanced driver assistance system by adding solutions to the surrounding sensors needed to achieve fully and highly automated driving

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