From the course: Insights on Automotive Design with Veejay Gahir

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How do you make the interior of a car more comfortable?

How do you make the interior of a car more comfortable?

From the course: Insights on Automotive Design with Veejay Gahir

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How do you make the interior of a car more comfortable?

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How to make the interior more comfortable of a vehicle. First of all it's seating. Seating, actually seats besides the engine, so the engine is the most complicated and expensive part of a vehicle to design from scratch. The second most expensive and complicated component is a seat. So the seat carry a lot of responsibility for, for comfort and, for ergonomics. So to make it more comfortable, you have to focus primarily on the seat. Then the environments. You need to give the person, or the driver, or the passengers as much room as possible. That's a real big push in the industry. So, in order to give them room, you really can't change the overall size or the width of the vehicle, so you try to compress the door width. So, compressing the door width you need possible new materials to be able to withstand side impact. So, you're driving the materials, you're driving the processes to give the passengers more space. So, when you have more space you just naturally feel more comfortable…

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