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Fritzmeier’s Genius Cab points the way to a safer and more comfortable future

Let Fritzmeier show you the “cab of the near future” developed by a consortium including Bosch, Grammer, Savvy Telematic Systems and the Technical University of Dresden. The prototype won the design category in the bauma innovation awards 2016 with an end-result that is “optimised in all dimensions.”
April 15, 2016 Read time: 1 min

 Let Fritzmeier show you the “cab of the near future” developed by a consortium including Bosch, Grammer, Savvy Telematic Systems and the Technical University of Dresden. The prototype won the design category in the bauma innovation awards 2016 with an end-result that is “optimised in all dimensions.”

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