Name: Peddoju Deepak

Guide: Dr. Sugandh Malhotra

Course: Mobility and Vehicle Design

Interior Design for a Personal Semi Autonomous Vehicle 2020

Technology advancements over the years have reshaped our dreams about the future. It proved that machines can be better than humans in certain areas. Which also makes us believe that future of transport is going to be safer with autonomous technology as it helps solve traffic problems, eliminate human errors and also unlocks new possibilities. With autonomous technology on road, we have an exciting chance to design the future of automobile. With no driving involved, interior space of an autonomous vehicle can be reimagined to suit futuristic lifestyle that enables new interactions. Interpreting interior space of an autonomous car that hits the road in the coming decade is challenging. With this in mind, this project aims at designing interior for a semi-autonomous vehicle for the year 2020.

Before arriving at concepts, research was done to gain knowledge and understand autonomous technology, advancements in technology, current and the future state of automobile, changing environmental factors, changes in human behaviours and other involving factors. Study on automotive industry shows that electric vehicles are on growing in the market as governments all over the world have started supporting them. And various OEM’s have already started electrification and announced their plans for driverless cars. Speaking to people have also revealed their interest in autonomous technology and their desires about owning a driverless car.

After the research was done, various user profiles and scenarios were considered to develop ideas and concepts.

Various concepts concentrating on providing a new experience in a driverless car for the passenger were developed.