Visteon Automotive Interface Technologies Video

Visteon Automotive Interface Technologies Video Transcript

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>> Hey Folks, Brian Cooley here at CES 2009 taking a First Look at a product that isn't really a product on the market you're gonna go buy, but in the future car you buy it maybe in there. Advanced control panels for vehicles from Visteon Tier 1 automotive supplier. To put that in regular language that means they're one of the big dogs that sells parts to car companies that install things like this. Visteon create systems of this type in partnership with Emersion you know them for haptic feedback on game controllers and more so now on smart phones with touch screens. Let's see how those companies come together. Now, this is one of their advanced concepts. Notice what happen here when I hit a power switch. It went from a dead black screen, secret until lit to being a vibrant display of high resolution. You don't see that in cars yet do you? That's pretty sleek. Now down here you got the actual controls again they're smooth panel with haptic feedback as you touch the buttons, a buzz, a click, a soft click, things like and notice the sounds here as I move my hand around just the zone that I'm going to it lights up. Again, stays clean doesn't jam your eye balls with lots of attention grabbing detail until you need to go there and do something. Now let's go to the latest generation. And the latest rig looks like this, power up your car and it's like it comes to life out of nothing. Cars are starting to go this way now, some gauges and instruments go from dark and black to something, but this is a completely invisible interface that wakes up when it's time to drive. And again would in view all of the zone logic and just presenting information you need plus this will eventually have gesture control. So as you move over the screen and make hand movements without contact you'll actually initiate commands in control systems. One more thing, follow me down here. And this is right out of the commander Ashton Martin, check this out. Hit the button and what looks like an ordinary sunglass bin, lifts up to reveal what they call a Smart Storage Bin. In there, either USB, your aux connector, all that sort of stuff that's little smuggler's box to keep the valuables, right? And eventually this could even have a contactless charging technology, so you just throw your gear in there and it charges just by laying on the bottom of that bin. Now, none of this stuff is on the market right now. Look for 2012 likely because the automotive industry has three and four-year product cycles. But this thing on says they are already to build this for the auto makers who wanna step up and get it ready for that time frame. I'm Brian Cooley showing you some new vehicle interfaces here at CES 2009. ^M00:02:24 [ Music ]