Beyond Weight Sensors: How Tactile Sensing Could Transform Occupant Classification
As vehicle restraint systems become more intelligent, accurately understanding who is sitting in each seat and how they are positioned is becoming just as important as detecting that someone is there.
Existing occupancy sensing technologies, including weight sensors, cameras and radar, each have limitations when it comes to reliably classifying occupants across different body types and seating scenarios. We spoke with Christine Fraser, Co-Founder & COO of Brighter Signals, about how tactile sensing could provide a new layer of occupant intelligence, improve classification accuracy for vulnerable passengers, and help enable safer, more personalised restraint systems.
Beyond Compliance: How Agentic AI Could Unlock the Next Generation of Occupant Monitoring
Occupant Monitoring Systems (OMS) are evolving from regulatory necessities into intelligent platforms capable of understanding occupants, context and intent.
As legal requirements and Euro NCAP establish the baseline for safety, the next wave of innovation lies in using the same sensing infrastructure to enable proactive safety, personalised assistance, comfort and more natural human-vehicle interaction. We spoke with Dr. Frederik Diederichs, Head of Perceptual User Interfaces Group at Fraunhofer IOSB, about how agentic AI, multimodal sensing and rapid prototyping tools such as AktiMeter are helping the industry explore what comes next for intelligent in-cabin systems.
From PyTorch to Production: Closing the Evidence Gap for ISO/PAS 8800
As automotive AI moves from research environments into safety-critical production systems, ISO/PAS 8800 is bringing greater focus to traceability, reproducibility and evidence across the full development lifecycle.
In this interview, Peter Kristiansen, Business Dev Exec – Automotive & Defence at Embedl discusses the practical gap between validating an AI model in PyTorch and proving the performance of the compiled, quantised binary running on vehicle hardware. He explains why compliance cannot be treated as an audit-stage task, and how automated evidence capture can help engineering teams continue innovating while building a stronger safety case for embedded AI deployment.
InCabin Europe 2026: Top Agenda Picks
Experts will share their expertise at InCabin Europe 2026. Here’s some of the top sessions with Aptiv, NIO, NXP, Minieye & more…
Building the Unified AI Stack for Software-Defined Vehicles
As vehicles become increasingly software-defined, the challenge is no longer adding more AI features- it’s creating an architecture that allows them to work together.
In this interview, Natalie Stormanns, Head of Infotainment and Digital Experience at MHP – A Porsche Company, explores why unified AI stacks, centralized compute, and integrated vehicle and cabin data are becoming essential to delivering safer, more intelligent, and more personalised driving experiences.
Hot Topics: The Top 5 Sessions from InCabin USA 2026
Recap the top sessions from InCabin USA 2026, see the latest advancements, challenges and solutions within the In-Cabin Monitoring fields.
The Six Trends Defining the Future of Automotive Sensing
The leading ADAS, AV and in-cabin technology conference returned to Detroit this June – here are the key themes from the day…
InCabin USA 2026 – Press Conference Recap
Learn more about the latest automotive technology developments announced at the InCabin USA 2026 conference.
Sara’s Top Takeaways: What We Learned at InCabin USA 2026
InCabin USA 2026 was so much fun, but of course we had to be productive too. Here’s what “productive” looked like for the attendees, exhibitors, sponsors, and partners who joined us in Detroit.
A special thank you to Tobii, our Founding Partner, for helping us build an event that prioritises a happy, engaged, and collaborative InCabin community. The industry showed up ready to share, challenge, learn, and connect – and the result was three fantastic days of discussion and discovery.
Inside China’s Automotive Innovation Machine with Brian Bao
Brian Bao reveals how China’s automotive ecosystem is accelerating ADAS, AI, cockpit technology and in-cabin innovations.