From the Car Design Review 5 yearbook: the French marque’s interiors lead takes us inside future designs
We are facing a big revolution in car design, and this revolution is coming from the interior. That’s what we see with the Renault Symbioz, because with connected and autonomous cars, you will be able to completely reimagine the interior.
Maybe you don’t need a steering wheel or pedals any more, maybe the seat can be a bench, or the seats turn? Then you can reinvent all the materials: as you see in the Symbioz, materials come from the home, there are real fashion materials inside. This will be reality in a few years, it’s not only an exercise. We will also see connected materials, smart fabrics or smart paint. The car will be able to communicate through the materials, and not only through screens or HMI devices – that’s also a totally new world of experimentation.
This is really exciting, but it’s a little bit frightening as well, because we are no longer in a kaizen evolution where you just have to do the same car a little bit better. Everybody is in front of a big sheet of blank paper…
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