The five most significant trends for in-car audio in 2016
This year, like any other, will bring about innovations, inventions, and fresh trends. However, what are we, here at Dynaudio, excited about for the future? Here, you can read about some of the megatrends our Product Manager for Automotive, René Rønning expects to become relevant within the next duo of years.
“Within the next duo of years, driving will become a multimedia practice as people are liberated from actually driving” – René Rønning
Let us get right to it and take a look at five trends that could be more than sheer novelty within the audio-automotive industry: autonomous cars, electrical and hybrid cars, creative placement of speakers, behavior predictions, and 3D printing.
“The car would automatically know – based on your previous behavior – that you like to listen to slow jazz on your way home from a busy day at the office, that you like to listen to loosening morning radio when your driving to work, or which particular sound profile you love.
“When we look a bit further ahead and consider this integrated with sound zones, your mobile device might even tell other peoples’ car what your preferences are and automatically play the kind of music you love in your zone, making it something we need to be aware of.” – René Rønning
“Taking a nap when you are driving to work is now possible. However, this also means we’ll see the car as more of a multimedia space. When you are driving four hours to see relatives, you might as well listen to your dearest music or observe a movie with the kids,
“We need to be aware of these trends, so we can adapt to, and meet, those requests in the future” – René Rønning
One thing is sure, with autonomous cars just around the corner, we’ll see people use cars in fresh ways: exploiting they do not have to concentrate on the road anymore.
Electrical and hybrid vehicles
With this type of car, we have to think in fresh directions, as requirements to weight and power consumption increase: the more electrical play our speakers consume, less ‘fuel’ you have for driving.
“But it is not ‘just’ about power consumption, the batteries in these types of car are exactly where we want to put our speakers, so we will also have to fight for our spot or find a fresh one” – René Rønning
Creative placement of speakers
“Placing speakers in the roof is not just creative, for creativeness sake, but it also opens up for 3D sound, which offers an improved sound stage and security features such as noise canceling that only lets the sound of an ambulance come through” – René Rønning
“We want the time inbetween our customers and ourselves as brief as possible and 3D printing is an significant means to that end. We have our own test car, and we can just print up a fresh design, put it in, and see if it works. This can significantly speed up our development processes and help us find the best solutions in a shorter timeframe.
“We might even see a future where speakers could become totally changeable, and you visit your local Volkswagen dealer, buy the latest Dynaudio speakers, and have the mechanic buttplug them in: that might not be a realistic screenplay, but it is a joy thought to play around with” – René Rønning
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