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Recent trends in Automobiles

In Sourcing

In manufacturing

In on board features In safety

In Comfort

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Manufacturing

Common Platform Sharing New initiative to share and control costs of

hidden parts and systems

For eg. Powertrain module is common formany vehicles such as Sedans, Hatchbacks

and SUVs

Eg: Volkswagen MQB, MFB Renault Nissan CMF

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Insert pictures

Google MQB or MFB

Google CMF

Put pictures of modules.

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Volkswagen Common Architecture

Cars sharing a particular platform, beginning

from Golf, Polo to Audi A4.

Take data from Net about correct names of

cars

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On board Features

Semi Autonomous Driving Systems

Automatic Car parking

Automatic Lane change

Automatic Braking Automatic Headlights and Wiper

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On board features

Automatic car parking

Cars equipped with camera and sensors,

automatically detect object, pedestriants and

pavement markers to park the car automatically

Sophiscated systems present in Luxury sedans like

Mercedes Benz S class just require the driver to

be seated while it automatically steers into the

slot Other simple systems offer feasibilty of parking in

a tight spot with a birds eye view of the car.

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In safety

Automatic Braking

Refer Volvo site.

Cars automatically detect pedestriants, animals orother cars in the path and automaticlly apply brakes incase the driver fails to brake with in a prset distance.

Cars also come with side impact and rear impactcollision systems that warn the occupants of imminentdanger and prepare counter measures like braking orAir bag deployment in case of emergency crash.

Volvo is the pioneer. Take a few pics form their site.

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Pedestrain Safety

Pedestrain detection using cameras, IR sensorsand Radar like technology.

Cars can automatically brake and use a

pedestrain air bag which increases the heightof the hood to prevent any head injury to thepassenger.

Also cars are designed so that the point ofcontact in case of impact in below the kneepoint of the pedestrain.

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On board features

Adaptive Headlights and Wiper

systems Cars automatically sense daylight and turn onthe Lamps without manual intervention.

High end cars also offer automatic High beam

and Low beam features sensing the light from

the on coming traffic

Similarly car sense rains and deploy wipers

automatically without any driver involvement.

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In safety

Seat belt Air bags

Apart from having Driver Frontal, Passengert

frontal, Passenger side Rear and front air

bags, cars now are equipped with seat belt

airbags that further prevent any injury ot

passengers.

Mercedes Benz 2014 S class

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Cabin Mood lighting

Cars can now offer, air craft like ambience by

offering LED based lights that are available in

various shades to suit the passengers mood

Passengers can choose the ambience to suit

his personality

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Powertrain Advancements

Hybrid cars

Parrallel and Series hybrid

Plug in Electric hybrid Range extender electric hybrid

Fuel cell electric hybrid

Jet Electric hybrid (Jaguar CX75)

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Powertrain advancements

Hill ascent/ Hill descent control

This prevents car from moving front ot

back when the car is stopped in traffic and

brakes are released. It reduces the stress on

driver as the car senses the slope and applies

the brake on its own to prevent rolling

All Major SUVs.

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Heated and Ventillated Seats and

Steering wheels

Luxury sedans offre the option of heating and

cooling the passenger seats to offer better

comfort to passengers.

Heated steering wheel meachanisms pre heats

the steering wheel to a warm state, so as to

prevent the fingers from freezing.

(Convertibles in Europe and US)

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Cornering Headlamps

Headlamps that are linked with steering wheel

that offer better corner illumination whenever

the steering wheel is rotated.

XUV500

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Tyre Pressure Monitor and

Maintanence

On board computers in cars monitor tyre

pressure and alert driver about low pressure

and puncture symptoms

Improvements in tyres offer sealants to offer a

minimum run off distance before replacing the

tyres.