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november 14, 2018 - Bosch

Bosch gets the world’s first curved instrument cluster on the road

World debut in the “Innovision Cockpit” of the new Volkswagen Touareg

  • Division president Steffen Berns: “With the world’s first curved instrument cluster, Bosch is opening up a new dimension in vehicle cockpits.”
  • Greater freedom: Digital cockpit design of the next generation
  • Greater safety: Reliable recognition of information, even at the edges of the screen
  • Greater choice: New display control allows drivers to select what they want the instrument cluster to feature

Hildesheim – A mind-bending achievement: Bosch is putting the world’s first curved instrument cluster in the cockpit of a mass-production vehicle. What has long since arrived in people’s living rooms at home and for the smartphone is now being put on the road by Bosch as the first of its kind in mass production. “The days of flat instrument displays are over. With the world’s first curved instrument cluster, Bosch is opening up a new dimension in vehicle cockpits,” says Steffen Berns, president of the Car Multimedia division. The “curved” instrument cluster will be celebrating its debut in the Innovision Cockpit of the new VW Touareg. This means that Volkswagen is now replacing analog display technology behind the steering wheel with a freely configurable, high-resolution, curved display. Depending on what the driver wants to see at any given time, the screen is able to display large-area navigation maps, driver information or the status of the assistance systems. The secret behind the sharpness and contrast of the new displays is a new manufacturing process, with which the instrument cluster reflects more than four times less light, even in the sunlight.