09 10 2015 19 ferred into the train without difficulty With the right receiv ing antennas that connectivity is very good The motorways are also 85 percent wired with fiber optic cable for traffic con trol So to sum up other technologies can be used if 5G does not arrive quickly enough In JLR s research people are also dealing with virtual internal and external mirrors and a see through A pillar In turn Land Rover is exploring a see through hood which allows a digital view of the ground How far along are you with these projects We will show the extent of many of these projects on demon strators over the course of the year How quickly the wind shield and the transparent A pillar go into regular production depends on the development of many technologies For exam ple we need fully flexible screens for the transparent A pillar But they are still in the laboratory stage You can see that we are not talking about short term time frames here But in three to five years the aforementioned technologies will definitely be production ready The new Jaguar XJ the brand s flagship will appear in 2016 Give us a look into the future With an eye to the competition will the equipment include gesture control a digital instrument cluster and laser or LED lighting Laughs Stay tuned But you ve mentioned aspects that would be a good foundation As you may suspect our focus is not the competition but rather the customer We want to make the Jaguar driver s automotive life easier with smart technologies That is our claim To offer drivers greater comfort and safety the car of the future is expected to demonstrate a certain intelli gence In your view what opportunities does machine learning offer It is increasingly important Last year we presented a self learning car It learns from the behavior of the driver We have to explore how people react to it Digital natives cer tainly expect it Other generations less so But we must not for get that the human brain acts in the teraflop range per second while a conventional computer is at the level of an insect In 18 to 36 months it will be at the level of a mammal and on the human level in 2040 Given this reality machine learning is advancing in small steps The new In Control interface in the JLR models allows the display of vehicle conforming apps from the An droid and Apple worlds while simultaneously providing a hotspot Will there also be online updates of naviga tion maps With In Control we have an interface to which you can con nect iOS or Android devices from the screen built into the vehicle and use and operate authorized applications as a con sequence So you can use the navigation system in your smart phone and have it shown on the vehicle s phone system Soft ware updates take place directly over the device We currently do not consider OTA over the air software updates to be production ready due to the high risks to data privacy It will come but the route into the car currently is not yet sufficiently secure Autonomous driving is the buzzword of the industry at the moment On the way to fully automated driving autonomous driving on the autobahn and autonomous parking will be key intermediate steps How far along is Jaguar in this field We are now collaborating on this with the cities of Coventry and Milton Keynes in a British government sponsored consor tium UK AutoDrive The cities have identified areas available for autonomous driving Working with Ford and other relevant participants such as telecom providers insurance companies and attorneys we want to investigate the entire range of issues there This does not merely revolve around technology there are other aspects including legal issues that we have to take into consideration The Vienna Convention of 1968 is relevant here One thing is certain The technologies continue to devel op and we naturally have the issue in our pipeline Jaguar is launching an innovation incubator As a first step a few startups are expected to develop technol ogies for the connected car of the future in Portland in the US BMW and VW are also taking approaches of this kind Is this the auto industry s response to the faster pace of the consumer world Our development cycles are different from those of IT Among other things cars must be subjected to rigorous test and val idation loops therein lies the time difference between the automotive and consumer worlds We can make IT available in rapid cycles quite well if the IT is not tied to the auto in dustry s extensive qualifying cycle This is the case with apps for example The innovation incubator is not a response to the fast paced consumer world It is rather an intelligent symbio sis There are intelligent people around the world who have ideas One example is the West Coast of the United States Why shouldn t we take advantage of this In addition the auto industry cannot generally manage the rapid testing and re jection of ideas the way people do there So it is a question of capacity No automaker has this kind of reservoir of computer scientists Interview by Hilmar Dunker Wolfgang Epple has led the research and develop ment activities at Jaguar Land Rover since July 2013 In June 2012 he joined the British automaker as director of product programs Epple can look back at more than 28 years of experience in the areas of product devel opment manufacturing and quality assurance He be gan his automotive career at BMW where he primarily worked in the research and development area over a period of 24 years INTERVIEW

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