I'm joined today by Vanessa and we're going to discuss vehicle
software, particularly in the domains of in vehicle
infotainment and occupant safety.
Vanessa, great having you here.
My pleasure.
Happy to see you, Thomas.
So looking into software in vehicle infotainment, what are
the big trends that you're seeing?
OK, I see two major trends.
The first one is connectivity.
Bring a completely seamless experience between outside your
mobile world and inside the car as a new living place.
And as well, emotion, because OK, it's important to link the
stay...the mood of the driver, the...who is inside the car with
the atmosphere.
And to have, I would say, a new branded experience for the OEM
and for...provided by the suppliers, Yeah. I love the word
emotion because, after all, driving and automotive remains
also an emotional thing.
Fully. Yeah. You're right.
Giving the car more emotions probably is a good plan.
Yeah.
When we look into occupant safety, which is probably a
little bit of a heavier topic because there are all the safety
requirements, it's a topic that requires much more effort put
into making sure that the systems really work well 100% of
the time.
What do you observe there?
Even if I try to link with what we just discussed before, so, we
speak about infotainment, entertainment, experience,
emotion inside the car.
But all that relates to safety because at the end we are in a
car, and we must be driven from a place A to a place B or drive
from a place A to a place B completely safely.
So this is what the automotive world adds to all the rest of
the experience. Regarding safety-related features,
specifically as you just mentioned, it's clear that the
ability and the functional validation, the functional
robustness are the key drivers for the system to have no false
detection or no wrong detection.
You're working with Forvia and then Forvia has traditionally
been more of a hardware supplier, but for some years now
has been in a transition in a transformation more towards an
actor in software defined vehicle in software in general.
Where are you standing today and how do you contribute to this
user experience?
OK, so we are strong player now in contributing to this software
transformation of the full automotive industry toward the
software defined vehicle.
So one of the key topics that we're working on is the apps
market for which we are the automotive leader, providing
branded UI, seamless experience for the driver to bring you top
apps from the mobile world natively inside the car.
So this is something that we are really developing by 2025, 20
million cars will be equipped with our system and gives this
gives to us, but as well to the automotive industry, new era of
new business model, new experience with in car payment,
new era of advertisement, data management, and all that.
So this is I would say a great adventure for the automotive and
we are very proud and happy to contribute to that. Great and
also a great adventure for Forvia I guess. As well.!
Best of luck with that, and thank you so much for the
conversation.
You're welcome.
Pleasure.
Thank you.