Apple Designing Car Interfaces?

[GoCubsGo]

Considering the Jag has a large issue with using fiber optics in their stereos, this has to be great news for jag drivers. I know one who has been waiting since she bought a 4th gen iPod and still no go for hard wiring.

 

[Chris Bangle]

http://www.autocar.co.uk/News/NewsArticle/Jaguar-XJ-Series/224229/

few moths old...February 07

One of the cabin’s most radical ideas are ‘proximity switches’. Also due to appear on a future version of the iPod, proximity switches do not require physical contact between the driver and the electrical switching mechanism. Sources say much of the XJ’s switchgear is nothing more than symbols etched onto glass sheets suspended clear of the dashboard architecture. Touching the symbol activates the switch, and the glass sheets are elegantly back-lit at night, so interior lighting can be activated by the occupant simply moving his hand in the vicinity of the lighting units.

CONTROL SURFACES.. Its soo simple...