For The Washington Post: What will the future of cars be like? Video games may have the answer.
In-car gaming is having a moment. But more than that, a new generation of automotive designers and engineers are taking inspiration from video games as they define the future of driving.
When he’s not designing the digital future of car dashboards, Mike Hichme is probably in his home-built racing simulator.
Hichme has had a three-decade career at General Motors and now oversees the entire “digital cockpit” experience, including software development for in-car displays and the ways drivers and passengers interact with touch screens. He’s been an obsessive gamer even longer, growing up in the era of arcade machines and the Atari 2600 before graduating to modern racing sims like iRacing and Assetto Corsa.
Those two things, Hichme said, have a lot more in common than you might think.
