{"id":73269,"date":"2024-06-11T12:04:11","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T16:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=73269"},"modified":"2024-06-11T12:04:11","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T16:04:11","slug":"1143457_zf-lifetec-steering-wheel-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=73269","title":{"rendered":"ZF can fit a screen and airbag into a steering wheel now"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>Future steering wheels will seemingly feature screens<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Safety won&#8217;t be an issue as an airbag will still be present<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>No automaker has committed to a putting a screen in a steering wheel, yet<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Screens are sprouting up everywhere in new cars, with some vehicles sporting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorauthority.com\/news\/1142568_2024-lincoln-nautilus-test-drive-review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">door-to-door displays<\/a>. Now ZF has found a way to breach one of the last screen-free zones on the dashboard.<\/p>\n<p>As described by the company in a press release, ZF has developed a way to fit a screen and an airbag into a steering wheel. Its new <strong>Lifetec steering wheel<\/strong> moves the airbag from its typical location in the hub to a spot just above. The airbag then deploys through the space between the wheel rim and hub in the event of a crash.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"static-marker-video-player-primis\"\/><\/p>\n<p>With this design, &#8220;touch displays, or a central screen are now conceivable,&#8221; according to ZF. Moving the airbag out of the hub also for a single horizontal spoke with a &#8220;seamless, smartphone-like design&#8221; that can house touch controls for entertainment or driver-assistance functions, the company adds.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image_wrapper first_wrapper\" readability=\"7\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" name=\"tccimg_100932285_m\" title=\"ZF Lifetec steering wheel\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAD\/ACwAAAAAAQABAAACADs=\" alt=\"ZF Lifetec steering wheel\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" class=\"first_image lazy\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"682\" data-url=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/lrg\/zf-lifetec-steering-wheel_100932285_l.jpg\" data-src-h=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/hug\/zf-lifetec-steering-wheel_100932285_h.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/lrg\/zf-lifetec-steering-wheel_100932285_l.jpg\" data-src-l=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/lrg\/zf-lifetec-steering-wheel_100932285_l.jpg\" data-src-m=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/med\/zf-lifetec-steering-wheel_100932285_m.jpg\" data-src-s=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/sml\/zf-lifetec-steering-wheel_100932285_s.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>ZF Lifetec steering wheel<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>This is the latest step in an ongoing process of repackaging car interior components to cram in more screens. <strong>Mercedes-Benz<\/strong> also had to engineer airbags, in this case front passenger airbags, around its giant <strong>Hyperscreen<\/strong> display in order to ensure the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorauthority.com\/news\/1141103_mercedes-crashes-two-electric-cars-eyes-accident-free-future\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">crashworthiness of its electric cars<\/a>. But even Mercedes hasn&#8217;t tried to put a screen in a steering wheel yet.<\/p>\n<p>Startup <strong>Byton<\/strong> planned to include a small wheel-mounted display in its M-Byte electric SUV, along with a massive 48-inch curved display spanning the entire dashboard. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorauthority.com\/news\/1128727_ev-startup-byton-halts-operations-due-to-cash-troubles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Byton halted operations<\/a> in 2020 due to cash troubles, and even with an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorauthority.com\/news\/1130814_after-unveiling-own-platform-foxconn-invests-in-troubled-ev-startup-byton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">investment from <strong>Foxconn<\/strong><\/a> announced in 2021, the M-Byte is likely dead.<\/p>\n<p>ZF hasn&#8217;t announced a customer for its Lifetec steering wheel, but given the current enthusiasm for screen space among automakers, it may only be a matter of time until this wheel appears in a production vehicle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Future steering wheels will seemingly feature screens Safety won&#8217;t be an issue as an airbag will still be present No automaker has committed to a putting a screen in a steering wheel, yet Screens are sprouting up everywhere in new cars, with some vehicles sporting door-to-door displays. Now ZF has found a way to breach [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73270,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design-concepts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}