The Finnish-designed Origo Steering Wheel may look strange, but it was created like this to keep drivers’ hands on the wheel at all times. Featuring tactile, three-dimensional touch surfaces on the steering wheel that can be connected to various smart controls in the vehicle, thus enabling quick access to the most important functions, such as adjusting climate settings, using turn signals, setting navigation, and more. Read more for a video, additional pictures and information.
Several companies worked on this design, which has Canatu providing its transparent 3D touch surfaces, Siili Auto implementing their smart steering wheel User Interface (UI) of the smart steering wheel and Rightware providing its market-leading HMI (Human Machine Interface) software tools. Putting everything together is Northern Works, the supplier for the project responsible for the industrial design.
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The initial idea of the Origo steering wheel was to challenge the status quo of the existing steering wheel HMI and not just take the easy route of converting analog controls into digital versions. Our lives have become cluttered with information and overstimulated with choices, so we wanted to offer the driver clarity with our steering wheel concept and reduce functions and controls to just the bare necessities,” said Miika Heikkinen, Lead Designer, Northern Works.
