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positions in development and sales in Germany and abroad, assuming the position of head of the Hanover- based passenger-car tire business in March 2009. He has been a member of the Executive Board of Continen- tal since August 2009. He assumed responsibility for the Tires business area – which was formed from the passenger-car and commercial- vehicle tire businesses – in August 2011 and for Corporate Purchasing in May 2015. In April 2019, Setzer switched to Continental’s Automotive Group, where he assumed the newly created position of spokesman of the Automotive Board and was thus re- business strategy in this area. He will continue in this position. The num- ber of Executive Board members at Continental will decrease from nine to eight on December 1, 2020.
From left: Nikolai Setzer & Dr. Elmar Degenhart
Continental Partners with
Share Now for Real Time Tread Depth Monitoring
C with its new tyre tread depth monitoring in a pilot that has utilised the electric vehicles of the car- sharing provider, Share Now Denmark.
coordinate the tyre sensor information with the telemetry depth, with an accuracy of below one millimetre could be checked. So, in the future smart digital tyres like this will be a key indicator to enable the needs-based servic- ing of tyres, instead of through the traditional method of regular, scheduled servicing.
- cantly accurate tread depth monitoring via an algorithm. With an accuracy of below one millimetre our pilot has in fact set an industry benchmark in smart digital tyre solu-
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