This video gives us a picture of the dash boards to come in trucks and it also acts as a reminder of how the truck dash has changed over the years.
The new dashboard illustrated here is Scania’s new digital dashboard Smart Dash. The Scania Smart Dash offers limitless opportunities to individualise the driving experience while always having the latest data and information available.
Scania claim it has a healthy mix of manual controls and digital displays and that it has put great effort into making the support and safety systems intuitive and as unobtrusive as possible for the drivers.
This image being presented is very different from the Scania cabs of yesteryear which gave drivers only the most basic information.
“Apart from great overview and endless opportunities to individualise the driver station, our Smart Dash is also the leverage for increased communication and digitalisation in and around the truck,” said Stefan Dorski, Senior Vice President and Head of Scania Trucks. “Scania trucks can now be closely integrated with everything from the fleet management system to the actual driving environment and an array of cloud-based services for improved safety, uptime and productivity.”
The Smart Dash driver station always includes two displays: the Driver Display in front of the driver and the Centre Information Display (a touch screen that is available in two sizes – 10’1 or 12’9 inches). The driver can give input via the touch screen, by pushing buttons or by voice steering. Scania has settled for a balanced mix between physical and digital controls, steering away from the common mistake of hiding vital functions one or two levels down in a menu.
“The most well-used functions should of course be readily available,” says Eduardo Landeo, Product Manager, Scania Trucks. “It is all about offering the drivers the best possible experience and making sure that new technology always supports the drivers rather than annoying them or bringing cognitive overload. Or even, in the worst-case scenarios, create situations where their focus wanders from the road and direct vision to adjust basic things such as the interior temperature.”
