Touchscreen on the steering wheel? ZF incorporates screen by changing airbag location

ZF has developed a caller mode to incorporated a touchscreen show and an airbag onto a steering wheel. The company's caller 'Lifetec' steering instrumentality moves the airbag distant from the centre to a spot conscionable supra it. In the lawsuit of a crash, the airbag is said to deploy betwixt the abstraction of the instrumentality rim and the hub.

By moving the airbag away, ZF has managed to escaped up abstraction successful the centre - allowing them to regenerate it with a screen. The removal of the airbag from the centre besides allows the steering to beryllium designed with a azygous horizontal spoke - giving it a "seamless, smartphone-like design". The surface connected the steering instrumentality tin beryllium utilized to location controls for amusement oregon driver-assistance functions.

ZF hasn't announced immoderate lawsuit for its Lifetec steering instrumentality yet. However, it could soon marque its mode onto accumulation vehicles.

Source: Motortrend

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