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Ford and Bosch show off how cars can park themselves in Detroit
Bosch’s future of urban transportation involves a city-wide network of autonomous cable cars
Imagine being able to admire your city’s beautiful landscape while traveling (something that isn’t really possible in underground subways, or in tightly packed buses). BOSCH is rethinking urban mobility in a way that allows public transit systems to be as convenient as private cars, with the added advantage of being able to admire your city from up above. Partnering with Art Lebedev Studio to envision what this new form of transport would look like, you’ve got yourself a full fleet of robust, autonomous cable cars, running on a well-planned network that covers all important parts of a city.
This cable-car system is incredibly effective for a multitude of reasons. It’s financially and physically easy to expand cable networks without disrupting existing architecture (building subway lines and stations can cost enormous sums of money). The cable cars even have an edge over buses because they can actually travel in straight lines, independent of existing roadways, or of traffic. These uniquely designed cable cars don’t even require special stations or stops, thanks to a feature built into each car that allows it to descend down onto the road every time someone needs to hop on or aboard. Working essentially like an autonomous flying car (even though it’s just suspended above the ground), these cable cars can efficiently pick you up and drop you off wherever you need. Each car seats as many as 5 people, offers a stellar elevated panoramic view of the city, is weather-proof, and runs on clean renewable electrical energy. The cars also come with WiFi on board too, obviously!
BOSCH and Art Lebedev’s conceptual cable car system currently exists as just a visual representation, but Art Lebedev’s website mentions Moscow may be the first city to ever see this revolutionary travel system!
Designer: Art Lebedev Studio for BOSCH
Bosch’s Virtual Sun Visor uses an LCD screen to cut the glare without cutting your view
Its animated-PowerPoint video editing aside, Bosch does make a pretty good point. We’ve innovated in every part of the car, except the sin visor. The visor, although designed with good intent, is often obstructive, as it reduces your visibility in its effort to shade your eyes. The fact that you can’t wear heavily tinted sun-glasses while driving (in most parts of the world) just further aggravates the matter because you’re faced with one of two issues when you’re driving with the sun shining right at you. Either ignore the horrible glare, or cut your vision in half by holding an opaque flap against the sunlight. Bosch’s solution to the problem is pretty simple and just as effective.
The Virtual Visor is a transparent plate that sits in front of you, allowing you to see the road ahead right through it. The visor does, however, come with a facial-sensing RGB camera that sits on your dashboard, tracking your face as you drive. When it begins sensing glare or an excess of brightness on your face, a part of the visor goes dark, thanks to an LCD film integrated into it. This hexagonal matrix of dark pixels shifts around as your face moves, casting a shadow on your eyes to cut the glare, while the rest of the visor remains transparent for you to see through. Bosch demonstrated the Virtual Visor as a very basic prototype promising major improvements to it. For now, the idea itself seems pretty impressive, and the prototype does a pretty neat job of tracking your face and providing a dark visor only to your eyes while 90% of the visor remains clear and transparent.
My initial thought would be that Bosch should integrate this right into windshields, rather than having it as a separate visor, but the guys at Bosch rightfully point out that LCD panels tend to go dark if and when they fail or break, which would in turn compromise the driver’s full view were the windscreen to instantly turn black if gravel, hail, or even a rock slightly cracked the glass. The Virtual Visor, however, only cuts a portion of your view if it fails, and can always be folded right back up. Another issue with the Virtual Visor is its facial tracking, which at the moment seems like it needs better calibration. The camera can sometimes fail to detect your face if you turn it to look sideways or back, and the LCD pixels sometimes prove to be a bit of a distraction as they move around right in front of you.
Bosch is promising to develop this technology further to help it reach customers soon. Under development since 2016, the Virtual Visor hopes to be miniaturized further, with the ability to even swivel sideways to cut glare from the side of the driver. I guess all we need to do is wait and ‘watch’.
Designer: Bosch
CES 2020 recap: Day two
The question is no longer "where's my flying car," but "am I willing to get in one?" Uber and Hyundai certainly hope so, as they unveiled the S-A1 flying taxi concept could one day shuttle you at up to 180 MPH from one hub to another. Speaking of...
Bosch’s Virtual Visor is a smarter way to block out the sun
Car sun visors are a double-edged sword. Yes, they stop annoying rays from shining directly into your eyeballs, which means you don't have to squint or immediately grab a pair of sunglasses. But if you pull down that flappy bit of plastic, it also ob...
Bosch’s virtual visor eliminates sun glare without blocking your view
Sun glare is responsible for thousands of car accidents every year -- almost twice as many as any other weather-related condition, in fact. Now Bosch has reimagined the traditional sun visor to help tackle the problem -- and it's an incredibly techy...
Bosch is finally making LiDAR sensors for autonomous cars
Bosch says it's developed production-ready LiDAR sensors for use in vehicles. It's hoping to keep costs down by making them at scale. That way, it might be able to offer them at a lower price and bolster more widespread adoption of autonomous driving...
Mercedes and Bosch commence self-driving trials in San Jose
Do you know the way to San Jose? It doesn't matter if you're in a self-driving car. As they previewed earlier this year, Bosch and Mercedes-Benz have commenced trials for an automated ride-hailing service in the Silicon Valley city of San Jose. To st...
Home appliance giant Bosch needs a Senior Industrial Designer!
BSH Home Appliances Corporation is operating in the United States under the brands Bosch, Thermador, and Gaggenau. BSH Home Appliances Corporation is highly regarded as a market leader for innovation in home appliances. As an international group with over 12.2 Billion in annual sales, they continually strive to engage their dedicated customers around the world through intelligent engineering, streamlined design and distinct ease of use. BSH believes that “Tomorrow is our home.” Find out how easily you can achieve at BSH Home Appliances Corporation: As a leading manufacturer of home appliances and solutions, they encourage commitment and open-mindedness among their employees. With their global brands Bosch and Gaggenau as well as their local brand Thermador, the focus truly is on innovation. And that doesn’t just apply to all their products and services but also drives the way in which BSH cooperates, exchanges ideas and organizes their teams. Apply now to make your individual contribution to the company’s overall success!
The new Bosch Cookit was launched at one of the biggest tech fairs in Europe, the “Internationale Funkausstellung 2019” in Berlin. It offers versatile cooking options such as guided cooking, numerous automatic programs, and manual cooking mode, and is the only appliance on the market to support temperatures up to 200 degrees!
The Opportunity
BSH’s brand Bosch is seeking a highly motivated candidate that will be responsible for the conception and industrial design realization of future innovations in the luxury refrigeration market. This position will be pivotal in the long-term development and strategy of luxury home appliances. As a creative thinker, you will work with various groups to collect and generate ideas for the next luxury refrigeration products within interdisciplinary teams (product marketing, design, product management, development, etc.). It is essential that this role champions curiosity, openness, and is keen to explore the underlying needs of consumers. The role will focus on developing new innovations that are steered using user experience tests, design thinking, and market research studies to ensure the most consumer-driven innovations are pursued. This position will be located at either our Industrial Design office in Irvine, CA or our Refrigeration Development Center in Knoxville, TN and will travel frequently to the other location. Candidates must identify the location desired to work from.
Responsibilities
• The main function of this position is to lead the Industrial Design of projects focused on Luxury refrigeration products.
• Plan and implement Design Thinking sprints of multidisciplinary teams to develop highly innovative solutions in the luxury refrigeration market including service solutions.
• Implement market research to support future innovations for the luxury consumer (e.g. ethnographic studies, qualitative, quantitative, etc.).
• Support refrigeration departments to gain clarity and certainty in specifying consumer-centric solutions.
• Work with external model makers to create design prototypes.
• Create design data including CAD, Photo-real renderings, Drawings, CMF Specification, and Print Films.
• Works with Product Marketing and Engineering to realize design concepts.
• Manages external design firms for renderings, CAD, UI work.
• Mentors Industrial Designers I and II and Interns.
• Initiates and works on pre-development projects.
• Responsible for additional department function (i.e. rapid prototyping machine, intern recruitment, technology scouting).
Requirements
• Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Design
• 5+ years of experience
• Extensive computer knowledge of graphic and CAD software
• Knowledge of consumer research, design thinking, and UX methodologies
• Knowledge of construction and manufacturing standards with a possible connection to design
• Capable of working on design projects with a very high level of complexity
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written
• Optimistic, creative and motivating personality, also good analytical and problem-solving skills
• Must be team-oriented and flexible
• Highly organized with exceptional planning capabilities
• Ability to moderate group discussions
• Ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority
• Ability to perform duties with minimal supervision, handle multiple tasks and be prompt in meeting deadlines.
• Ability to interact with multiple levels of management essential
• Motivation to take on greater responsibilities over time with a positive attitude
• Proficient with all Microsoft Office products.
• Proficient with CAD, Sketch-up, Keyshot, Adobe Creative Suite.
• Travel required approximately 30-40% (Domestic & International including Germany and Turkey)
Benefits
A comprehensive benefits package including paid vacation, holidays, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, educational assistance, and a 401(k) plan.
How to Apply
Please visit https://www.bsh-group.com/us/ and find a new home for your professional ambitions. This position is eligible for the BSH Associate Referral Program. BSH is an EOE / AA Employer and participates in E-Verify. International candidates must hold a valid US working permit.
Location
Irvine, CA or Knoxville, TN.
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