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CDN Geneva Design Night returns for 2024 | Articles

Car Design News is pleased to announce CDN Design Night Geneva, an exclusive evening cocktail reception taking place on Monday 26 February 2024 within the exhibition halls of The Palexpo.

The Design Night makes a long-awaited return following a series of postponements around the pandemic, and as always, provides an exclusive opportunity for senior car design professionals to network with their peers, exchange ideas and meet new contacts. Last held in 2019, this has long been a fixture on the automotive event calendar. After a four-year hiatus, the Geneva International Motor Show itself also returns in 2024, celebrating its 100-year

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Tata design boss talks bridging the gap between designers and engineers

When Martin Uhlarik was appointed head of the Tata Motors European Technical Centre, it was a rare example of a designer taking on serious responsibilities relating to production and engineering.

Alongside his role as global head of design, the expanded scope sees him frequently involved in engineering planning meetings where details are pored over and the realities of taking a design from sketch to series production are brought to light.

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Part of the job comes down to bridging the gap between two historically disparate teams – one group looking very much into the future, and another working with what is

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Two Measures of Intelligent Design’s Advance

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It’s a talking point for evolutionists that in the past two decades, intelligent design has stalled. Hardly! On the contrary, I’m delighted today to share with you two very impressive measures of how much ID has advanced in that time. One is the latest update of our “Bibliography of Peer-Reviewed and Peer-Edited Scientific Publications Supporting the Theory of Intelligent Design.” Go to the link to download the full bibliography, with annotations, which is the length of a book — 186 pages in total. That’s not bad for such a young field.

Another measure of ID’s

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Will AI Replace Embedded Software Developers?

If you’ve paid attention to the news lately, it’s hard to miss the doom and gloom about how AI is coming for your job. There are reports of companies laying off employees and replacing them with “AI.”

Does the promise that one day AI will be able to do everything for us meaning that pretty much “all of us” will be out of a job? How realistic is it that your job will be replaced by AI? Should you be concerned that your embedded software job will be included?

The Current State of AI for Embedded

The advances in generative

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Technology and Design Trends to Support an Aging Population

It is no secret that the developed world is dealing with an aging population. Particularly in the Western world, the massive baby boomer generation is now, or soon will be, among the senior citizens in our society. The impact of having a vastly growing population requiring geriatric and senior care is enormous. As with any challenge, there are many ways design can have a favorable impact on both the quality of care and quality of life. A key factor in quality of life is the desire to remain as independent as possible. In order to achieve this, one must ensure

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Jozef Kaban joins SAIC | Articles

A shake-up of Volkswagen’s design department early in 2023 saw Andreas Mindt replace Jozef Kabaň as head of design, who moved into a new ‘creative art director’ role elsewhere in the group.

We can now report that Kabaň has taken up a new gig in China with SAIC, treading a similar path to ex-colleague Klaus Zyciora, who moved from VW to Changan. Kabaň will serve as vice president of the design center based at SAIC’s R&D Innovation Headquarters, and will report to global design director Shao Jingfeng.

Kabaň joins at an exciting time for the brand, with MG celebrating its

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Data Is the Answer to Most Sustainability Problems

“I think often times people look to jump past the value of data and try to go to solutions,” Matthew Wright, founder and CEO at Specright, tells DesignNews. “But the standard DNA of product and packaging needs to be understood, accessible, and usable to therefore impact downstream effects like sustainability. It’s really all about the data and the strength and value of that data,” he explains.

Wright will explore the importance of digitizing data in his presentation at IME South, “Success in Sustainability Starts with Digitized Specification Data.”

The first step in organizing data, he said, is

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Nissan Solid-State Battery Plant Nears Production Readiness

Solid-state EV batteries are viewed as a solution for the many shortcomings of lithium-ion batteries, but they have seemed like a mirage that remains forever on the horizon.

Nissan has put a stake in the ground, saying that it will have solid-state batteries in its cars by 2028, and to prove it the company has unveiled the plant that is building those batteries already. Toyota announced a similar schedule last year that targets 2027-2028.

Nissan revealed its all-solid-state battery pilot production line at its Yokohama Plant in Kanagawa Prefecture. This pilot line develops the necessary manufacturing technologies for the batteries

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