Volkswagen : Imagine that your car is optimally adapted to your needs. You can lean back, as relaxed as if you were at home. If you want it to, the vehicle will show you the world. This could soon be reality. ...

Your car prepares for you Kord Lühr is the expert in the Electronics Development team for providing the right temperature at the right time. 'We teach the car to get to know its driver's habits better and better,' he says. The idea is that virtually everyone follows recurring routines. 'Such sequences can be recognized as patterns by artificial intelligence, which can respond accordingly,' Lühr explains. This means that the personal assistant can already prepare the car in an optimally pleasant way for the driver even before the journey begins. For example, if it is cold outside, the vehicle of the future could remind Stephanie to turn on the auxiliary heating in good time, something she might forget to do in the hectic bustle of everyday life.

When Stephanie is sitting in the vehicle, she can easily access her e-mails, her social media accounts, or Volkswagen We functions. Her seat, the exterior mirror and the infotainment system have also been customized to her needs. All this is possible because the car recognized Stephanie as soon as she got in, on the basis of biometric factors. Artificial intelligence has also already calculated the probable routes in advance - based on earlier drives she has made, among other things. 'If Stephanie wants it to, her personal assistant will understand her behavior better and better over time,' says expert Kathrin Wilkens. The advantage of this is that the user only has to confirm her destination and the car sets off immediately. It is important to the developers that customers remain in control of their data at all times. What they do not want to reveal is not evaluated by the personal assistant.