Project Rumba: Interior for autonomous vehicles

Car Interior Feasibility of futuristic interior concepts

2024-11-27 From Sven Prawitz Sven Prawitz | Translated by AI 5 min Reading Time

The interior of Level 4 cars and trucks will have to meet new requirements. Companies and universities have investigated what these are in the Rumba project.

No steering wheel: joysticks on the armrests instead. This and other concepts were investigated as part of the Rumba project.(Image: Bosch) — No steering wheel: joysticks on the armrests instead. This and other concepts were investigated as part of the Rumba project.
(Image: Bosch)

In 2017, various suppliers of interior systems focused on variable vehicle interiors. At the IAA in Frankfurt, Germany,, they presented concepts with rotating front seats and movable center consoles. The ideas arose from the vision of automated driving cars: while the vehicle systems take control, the two occupants in the front should have more space. Newly designed storage areas and screens were to enable new usage concepts for the vehicles.

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