Don’t try to imitate consumer electronics in designing new human-machine interfaces, say panelists at the Wards User Experience Conference. The automobile is capable of offering so much more.

Development of any innovation is hard to nail immediately, says Henry Bzeith of Flex. “You refine it and make it better.”

Practice defense diligently, and you need not worry as much about offense. What is defense in the product-design world? System redundancies, testing redundancies, security redundancies, safety redundancies.

C-V2X, 5G and HDBaseT are just some of the technologies being targeted for speeding up and expanding data transfers between vehicles, infrastructure and the cloud.

Forget “2001: A Space Odyssey” – deep learning soon will enable artificially intelligent computers that will revolutionize automobiles and how we interact with them. 

“If I smash my $1,000 (Apple) iPhone X in the parking lot and can’t drive my car, that’s a big problem,” says Jacek Spiewla of Mitsubishi Electric. “I can’t get in my car because the smartphone acts as a key...

Vehicle designers will have even more to think about as new data-gathering capabilities emerge, populations shift and buyers demand a social experience inside their cars.

As the age of everyone riding shotgun approaches, the auto industry must pay special attention to gaining and keeping human trust in the enabling technology.

Automotive UX needs to make people safe and secure while providing a personalized experience.