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Faurecia Microfit

2011-11-30
okay two questions how many of you can never quite get comfortable in your car seat especially on long trips and number two how many of you have a sleep number bed all right those to kind of come together in these seat technologies i'm going to show you now from for SIA here's an app that is tied to this seat sensors throughout in at least a half a dozen locations are picking up my body pressure where is there too much pressure where is there not enough and you can see it's live reading all of those into this data based app if I hit continuous here this technology called micro fit is now automatically adjusting all of those zones based on the pressure the idea is to get everything as close to zero as possible that's the nice neutral where I don't have too much pressure or too little supporting my old aging back now once you're comfortable how do you stay comfortable when you're driving that's where something called GPS fit comes in you've heard of active seats we've shown you in Mercedes for example that change the bolsters as you're in curves but those have kind of elaborate hardware this one is different look at this GPS fit is using GPS mapping and map data to know where I am so here on the map I can see on coming up there we go on a left-hand turn kind of a strong one and the seat just readjusted it didn't react to the dynamics of the car because I'm not even in the turn yet it pre reacted based on what it knows about what's coming up on the road how fast I'm going and what it knows about my height and weight because I set this thing up to myself when I first started driving the car and there it goes moving again now because we're getting back into a straight so we can handle lateral force prediction it can also get you set up for visibility by changing the angle of the seat and if it pushes your head forward to get you in the right place to see over a hill or something it'll also adjust the bottom at the same time to maintain your leg distance so you're not getting pulled away or too close to the petals lots of things going on here the idea of this is that all the technologies built into the seat whereas some of the current technologies there it goes again I guess returning require a lot of ancillary hardware now for see it doesn't make cars they don't sell seats you can buy there a vendor to lots of the major car makers out there but this is the kind of thing that we like to see companies showing to get the car makers to raise their visible a little bit toward the next or next innovation in car tech it's not always on a screen
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