FROM TRADITIONAL TO WOW
DAY OF THE VISIONARIES
Lutz Meschke, Deputy Chairman of the Board and Chief Financial Officer and IT, Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG
Smartphones are superceding cars as status symbols, electronics are replacing drivers at the wheel, combustion engines are becoming obsolete … for a sports car brand like Porsche, surely these trends must be horrific? Not at all, says board member Lutz Meschke.
DAY OF THE VISIONARIES
Orit Shifman, Chairman, CEO & Founder of OSR Enterprises
Autonomous driving involves acquiring, processing and sometimes storing vast data volumes. Yet this ‘sensitive’ data also needs to be effectively protected against unauthorized access. IT professional Orit Shifman believes this ambiguity gets far too little attention.
DAY OF THE VISIONARIES
Voice-controlled navigation systems are a great invention – but only if they understand the address they ‘hear’ correctly. Today’s systems struggle with other obstacles too.
DAY OF THE VISIONARIES
Lars Reger, Chief Technology Officer Automotive, NXP Semiconductors
Today, a luxury automobile contains around 200 million lines of software code. Describing the importance of electronics in modern automobiles, NXP Technology Director Lars Reger said: „That makes it the most complex technical device you can buy.“
DAY OF THE VISIONARIES
Bernd Osterloh, Chairman of the General and Group Works Council and Member of the Presidium of the Supervisory Board, Volkswagen AG
Roland Villinger, Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) annd Chief Digital Officer (CDO), AUDI AG
Vision and reality don’t always go hand-in-hand. Likewise, digitalization and e-mobility encounter very real obstacles during implementation. Will feasibility issues cause these ‘future topics’ to fail? Works Council boss Bernd Osterloh certainly isn’t naming a phase-out date for ICEs at VW, for example, saying customer demand would decide that.
DAY OF THE VISIONARIES
Dr. Akif Askar, Head of Business Development, Strategy and M&A, TRATON AG
Andrea Rexer, Head of Companies and Markets, Handelsblatt
When automotive managers talk about the breakthrough in electromobility, they usually mean cars. The heavyweights – the 40-tonne long-haul trucks – are rarely mentioned. But at the Handelsblatt Auto Summit.
The prosperity of a city is inextricably linked to the quality of its transport system. Good road networks facilitate the flow of goods and services, spurring economic growth. Increasingly, however, cities have become a victim of their own success. Intense urbanisation has resulted in congestion and pollution, stressing both commuters and infrastructure. Land-scarce Singapore is cognisant of these challenges. With 12% of our land already used for roads, it is critical for us to shape mobility in ways that enable our citizens to enjoy a better quality of life whilst optimising space and resources.Continue reading
Writing emails, reading the newspaper and watching movies will be part of everyday car journeys in the future. The vehicles of tomorrow will be self-driving – no human driver will wield the controls, but instead a computer will change gears, steer, brake and accelerate. The benefits will be fewer accidents and traffic jams and safer driving. While many of today’s manufacturers already offer assistance systems that manage the car in an increasing number of road situations, the era of fully autonomous cars is still some way up the road. And this is where Singapore is currently setting new standards. With an area of just 719 km² inhabited by 5.6 million people, Singapore must set high requirements of any driverless vehicles operating within its densely populated urban environment. Mastery of these requirements will have applications far beyond its shores.Continue reading
“Living test-lab” Singapore: Comfortable and flexible autonomous driving services of the future make the private car superfluous
Never before have there been so many commuters in Germany as today. The most recent Aral study (2018) shows that 72 percent of German employees now commute by car from home to work either always (59%) or mostly (13%). However, this preference for one’s own car is increasingly pushing all the major cities to their capacity limits. Traffic data provider Inrix found that Berlin drivers, for example, spent an average of 154 hours on congested roads in 2018. An unparalleled waste of time and resources – and also a great burden on the environment. New solutions for future-oriented commuter mobility are in demand – not only in Germany, but worldwide. After all, the metropolises of other countries are also struggling with the problem of traffic congestion.Continue reading
Interview: Rob Harwood, Global Industry Director, ANSYS Inc. with Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr.-Ing. E. h. Burkhard Goeschel
