DriveXP
Fall 2023 • Team Project • The Future of Driving Experience
Making the monotony of daily commutes more productive.
Making the monotony of daily commutes more social.
Making the monotony of daily commutes more entertaining.
Graphics: Cynthia Li | 3D Model: Nikolay Klishko | Renders: Junzhe Yan | Character Model: Joycelin Lau
DriveXP is designed for an L4 automotive experience featuring trajectory controls, a digital driver, and a redesigned cabin layout.
Why The Future of Driving?
As we move forward though the levels of autonomous driving, we find that there is some hesitation when it comes to autonomous systems. People do not trust autonomous vehicles to safely take them places due to a lack of understanding in the technology. In a world where we are currently operating at L2 autonomy, we are designing for a vehicle 20 years ahead of us at L4 autonomy.This eventually translates into our final concept through swiveling seats for socialization, a central hub with storage, virtual commands for ease of use, and a digital driver—Novity—for establishing trust within an autonomous system.
How Did We Get Here?
Through interviews and surveys, our findings show that users lack trust in autonomous systems and prefer to drive themselves with our current system. This is due to the fear and confusion in operating an autonomous vehicle. Additionally, the existing cabin space does not provide an adequate solution for storage and excludes the back seat passengers from conversation and social activities.
Concepts
Concepts involved changing up the cabin space and focusing on individual aspects of a car. Our goal was to address trust, social, and storage issues. My contribution to this stage in the process was Concept #1, where a seat rotation system was considered for passing off controls and socialization. The idea of a multi-task digital dash was incorporated into the concept we proceeded with—Concept #2 by Cynthia Li.
User Testing of Prototype
We created an environment using movable pin-up boards to enclose a space that harbored a TV, desk, chairs, and a couch to mimic the cabin space of a car. The TV would play dashcam footage, while users would interact with an iPad for Control Functions and see a Pepper's Ghost Hologram of our digital assistant—Novity—on another iPad.Feedback would result in our focus on Trajectory Controls and expand on Novity as a digital assistant.
Final Design & 2-minute Walkthrough
Novity Highlights
A lot of my contributions to the final concept was on Novity—the expressive digital driver hologram whom you communicate your needs to!
