Thanks this makes a lot sense

He elaborated that he’s thinking ahead, thinking abstract. That the end goal is always space and weight saving. Space saved on the inside will translate to design on the outside. And he’s not wrong.

There’s a reason your laptop uses coin sized fans and speakers

Eh... These aren't producing much in the low freq. spectrum where most of those issues occur. I'm imagining it inside the headrest. As with most things, how it's used matters as much or more than what's being used.

You can call it science, I call it sorcery! hahah

It's SCIENCE!

I want to incorporate that technology with one of these: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5z1I1grocF0

Ah yeah I get it now. I guess it's too early in the morning for me

Wow

It's a Vogon Public Address system...

I used to have a speaker called the base egg that was essentially the same thing

Its a joke

The tech has been around for decades, if that gives you any indication on the the sound quality to price ratio.

Funny. We’re making cars better when we should be weaning ourselves of fossil fuels.

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Perhaps a sub under the seat can fill in some bass.

I think Sony has a system of speakers that do something similar, they're capable of making surround audio and you feel like there's Audio coming from behind even when there's no speaker behind you, it's kinda crazy.

A speaker is an insignificant intrusion into a crumple zone and no engineer cares about a speaker going into your knee. Speakers themselves are already pretty thin to the point where if it's going to happen, you've got larger issues based on the fact that a 6.5" speaker is around 2.5" deep, held together by paper, and weighs around 2lb.

As for weight, these will save at most 35lbs (assuming a heavy set of speakers at 50lbs total and the fact that these are only 70% lighter) on a 2000-6000lb vehicle.

If anything, these would get put into flat panel TVs, but a car? There's too much dead space behind nearly every panel to justify it.

Finally, keep in mind, we've had flat panel speakers for decades, and this isn't the first article to proclaim their use in cars.

https://europe.autonews.com/article/20071001/ANE/70928002/carmakers-start-to-tap-flat-panel-speakers

I remember this decades ago. Didn't work well back then.

Could you clarify? I must be out of the loop.

The article says it's just really expensive to produce, until they find a cheaper way

> Speakers complicate aerodynamics

They're inside the car.

I couldn’t disagree more. Weight and space required for things like speakers complicate an engineer’s job, requiring compromises. Crumple zones require empty space to crumple. They don’t work properly if they smash a speaker into your kneecap. There are huge advantages to minimizing the space required by the most space wasteful components of vehicles, and speakers are obvious low hanging fruit.

> interesting to see

Pun intended?

Everyone can see it. The powers that be use these things as a test. Everyone who says they see it, instead of playing along, is a threat to the social order and will be eliminated

Weight is the only valid argument here, and even then you're talking a miniscule fraction of the total vehicle's weight. As long as crumple zones are mandated, there will always be room for speakers (think between the outer and inner panels of doors. Soundproofing is more for road/vehicle noise and will tend to be on the outer panel of any body section.

They already have this technology out there but im also curious to know specifically what LG can do with it. Just like Sony, these guys can work wonders with hardware