And this will happen in 10 years, according to Gordon Waener, head of the Mercedes-Benz design department. According to him, his profession is currently experiencing a global transformation against the background of a unification trend, especially in the field of electric transport. Mercedes-Benz already use AI technology in the development of new models, and every day artificial intelligence progresses, “radically changing the laws of design.”
In a conversation with ABC News, the chief designer Mercedes-Benz said that AI, which is used in the automotive industry now, in 99 percent of cases offers unrealized solutions, but one percent accounts for good ideas that can be used. And the task of his team is to separate the good from the bad. Every day, the technology is studying and applicable solutions are becoming more and more. “I think that in ten years most of the projects will be carried out and the designers will lose their jobs,” Vagener told reporters. “My successor will probably be a car, and it will cost much cheaper than my salary.”
Mercedes-Benz will insert touch screens into the wheels. These concepts will become serial in the near future Mercedes-Benz will release dozens of new products over three years
Wager, who has been working in Mercedes-Benz since 1997, and the post of head of the design department, who took the design department in 2016, has also commented on one of the most criticized design elements of modern Mercedes-the Hyperscreen digital board. For the first time, the 141-centimeter curved screen was shown on the EQS electric liftback in 2021, and its development cost the company not cheap. The chief designer admitted that, despite the invested funds, Hyperscreen has some problems with the quality of filling and graphics, but Mercedes-Benz does not plan to abandon it.
“Large screens are not a luxury, so we will create luxury outside its framework, paying more attention to the quality of the decoration materials,” Wagener emphasized.
The designer and a tendency to abandon the usual controls in cars with the distribution of autopilot mentioned. Complete autonomy, when the driver is completely excluded from the process of driving, “does not shine in the foreseeable future,” he said, so the autopilot will not have a significant impact on the interiors of future brand models. At the same time, he did not rule out that someday cars will still lose the lever of gear and steering wheel. “But this will not happen with the Mercedes until I hold this position,” Wagener assured.
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