“Customers have an expectation of wanting everything, everywhere,” says Pete Wood of Sony.
Scott Lyons says that when he joined Ford years ago, in-vehicle entertainment “was not really understood, beyond the radio and CD player.”
Today, Ford and other major automakers realize consumers want an array of in-vehicle entertainment. Their buying decisions often are influenced by such offerings.
“Customers have an expectation of wanting everything, everywhere,” says Pete Wood, senior vice president-digital distribution at Sony Pictures Entertainment.
He and Lyons
(below, left) are among participants in an online panel discussion entitled “In-Car Entertainment: Who Wins and Who Dares?” It is part of Automotive Tech Week: Megatrends, a series of sessions held by Informa Tech and two of its business units, Wards Intelligence and TU-Automotive.
Startup EV Maker Arrival Shuns Traditional Assembly “We don’t see ourselves as an auto company, but as a tech company designing (and making) vehicles,” says Arrival’s Chief Design Officer Jeremy Offer.
Jeremy Offer heads electric-vehicle maker Arrival’s design team, but he notes his prior work experience is devoid of auto designing.
The same goes for most members of his design team. “We’re industrial designers,” Offer says, contending that area of expertise is more in line with the unconventional way his startup company approaches EV manufacturing.
Most of today’s EVs are built on traditional assembly lines set up mainly to accommodate vehicles with internal-combustion engines.
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High-Tech Training Key to ’22 Acura MDX Production Associates trained for new tasks in a virtual environment using touchscreens that allowed them to practice on virtual elements before handling physical parts to install, says Acura training director Joey Sippel.
In an effort to ensure quality for every 2022 Acura MDX rolling off the assembly line in East Liberty, OH, Honda is using new tools to train associates as they prepare to build the brand’s redesigned flagship.
Bill Ramsey, engineering/manufacturing leader for global production of the MDX, says the goal of the training was to familiarize workers with the new technology required to build the SUV.