Autonomous Vehicle Engineering - January 2022 - 6

Cover Story
Yangfeng's XiM21 technology
demonstrator showcases deeply
reclining " hovering " seats that
passengers could use today and
even drivers potentially could enjoy
in a future vehicle equipped with
high-level driving automation.
And that's before considering the transportation
industry's other significant development channel:
ride-hail and rideshare vehicles operated by fleets
and private owners.
" We did a study two years ago, looking at how
people would use autonomous vehicles, and we found
a strong delineation, " explained Jeff Stout, executive
director, Yanfeng Automotive Interiors. " We separated
the user experience into minutes, hours and years. The
years-of-ownership experience is traditional - you
buy a vehicle, drive it, park it in your garage and own
it over time. But minutes and hours, especially in an
autonomous world, is not traditional. We got some
insights from the study and from Uber and Lyft; when
you take the driver out of that and you're just getting
transportation - mobility - what does that change?
The answer is that it changes everything. "
While details of Apple's autonomous-vehicle
program are scarce, some recent media reports
citing internal sources describe cabin configurations
similar to EV startup Canoo's Lifestyle Vehicle, in
which rear-seat occupants face each other, limousine-style.
Apple interior concepts also reportedly
have located the vehicle's touch-screen-based
infotainment system in the center of the passenger
space, to encourage user interaction and interface
with Apple's own mobile devices.
" In the world of high-volume personal vehicles
and commercial trucks, there will be many different
cockpits of the future, delineated by purpose,
segments and price, " asserted Drew Winter, senior
analyst at Informa Tech, which annually names the
auto industry's 10 Best Interiors and monitors vehicle
cabin-related trends. Although heavy use of glass for
oversized touchscreens and instrument clusters has
emerged as a futuristic-looking solution for many
current and potential user-interface (UI) functionalities,
Winter projects that many entry-level and
mid-priced vehicles - particularly outside the U.S.
market - may not have screens at all. They'll instead
rely on a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) strategy,
which could be necessary to make AV technology
more widely affordable.
'Tracking' from now to then
The UI possibilities for interacting with automation
and ADAS capabilities run not just to design,
but to cabin materials, too. Global suppliers such as
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