Automotive supplier Continental seeks to implement a comprehensive approach in designing future-proof human-machine interface (HMI) concepts, said board member Helmut Matschi during last week's Automotive News World Congress.

According to Matschi, it is necessary that a vehicle anticipates a driver's needs in any given situation. The consequence of this evolution will be that a static automotive HMI with dashboard instruments and control elements will be changed to a dynamic, holistic one. The control elements and displays will have to adapt to every type of scenario, whether someone is behind the wheel or fully automated driving.

In the implementation of this holistic control concept, interior cameras play an important role because they address the information flow between driver, environment and vehicle. While it is important that automated driving functions can be activated very easily and smoothly, it is also necessary that the transition back to the driver must be done in an intuitive way. Interior cameras can measure the driver's head position as well as his line of sight. In a critical situation, signals direct the driver's attention to where it is needed. Such signals can be generated, for instance, by a line of LEDs in the car's interior.

With increasing traffic density, it has become even more necessary to filter information accordingly for the driver. The deployment of digital micromirror device (DMD) technology in next-gen head-up displays will enable more flexible display content. This concept will be soon be developed into an augmented reality HUD wherein optical information can be superimposed into the actual view of the road.

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