Trends in mobility and autonomous driving is the focus of the upcoming one-day interactive gathering, hosted by virtual prototyping and services company ESI Group. As a top innovator for manufacturing industries, ESI has invited key industry professionals overseeing manufacturing and engineering developments in the automotive sector to a meeting at their Bay Area Office in San Jose, CA on June 27th.
Experts in Electric and Autonomous Vehicle Development will meet with industry peers and a team of Electric Vehicle (EV) experts to discuss EV trends and discuss the complex challenges surrounding EV development.
Dr. Stephen Zoepf, Executive Director of the Center for Automotive Research at Stanford (CARS) will provide the opening key note with a presentation on “Trends in Mobility & Autonomous Driving”. In his talk Zoepf will discuss how vehicle electrification and autonomous/assisted driving is requiring a fundamental re-thinking of engineering methods and design philosophies in automobile manufacturing. In view of this dramatic change underway, CARS is a conduit for industry, academia and government by providing a portal of auto-mobility research at Stanford University.
“The traditional automotive industry is rapidly evolving into a personal mobility industry as shared access begins to replace private sales, electric vehicles begin to replace gasoline, and automation begins to replace human driving ability. As these trends begin to shape the industry, the way that we use vehicles is also evolving, and traditional benchmarks and measures of success no longer apply,” Dr. Zoepf stated in a press release.
Zoepf will present specific questions which automakers and suppliers should take into account in the next decade.
As a specialist in material physics and a leader in Virtual Prototyping software and services, ESI Group will showcase at the event their unique proficiency in helping industrial manufacturers replace physical prototypes by virtual prototypes. This capability helps manufacturers by allowing them to virtually manufacture, assemble, test and pre-certify their future products. Interactive demos of Virtual Reality and ADAS solutions will be given throughout the day.
