In 2013, Faurecia was the world’s sixth largest automotive parts supplier, dealing its wares in 34 countries. Part of its inventory is taken up by car seats, which they are about to really bring into the future.

After many owners of current-style electric seats complained about the high complexity of operation, the company has taken it upon itself to create self-adjusting seats that require no input from the occupant in order to set up.

These will use pressure sensors and cameras to make the seating position ever so comfortable and we presume supportive to not be the source of bad backs… Along with Faurecia, Johnson Controls Inc. (or JCI, for short; world’s seventh largest) also confirmed that it too was working on similar technology.

Representatives of the former did not reveal the automotive company that they were involved with in the creation of said seat, but they did say the project is called “Oasis” and it’s “for a North American automaker’s vehicle in 2015.” Could it be Cadillac for its upcoming S-Class rival?

It’s fair to assume that these seats would work much in the same way modern seatbelts do when they tighten around the body once fastened, in order to measure and gauge how to best react in the event of a crash.

When they will hit the market, they will at first (naturally) be limited to exclusive, luxurious cars and in a quarter-century, you’ll see it in the then new tenth-gen Nissan Micra too…

By Andrei Nedelea

Story References: Automotive News
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