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FCC Actions, Incompatible Options Muddy V2X Outlook
Vehicle-to-vehicle/infrastructure (V2X) communications often is touted as a critical technology for automated driving and even to derive the utmost benefit from advanced driver-assistance...
News Communications
Automakers to Blame for Potential Loss of V2X Spectrum
After years of heavy lobbying from the cable and wireless industry, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is on the verge of reallocating most of the spectrum that had been...
Articles Communications
Far and Away: Remote Drivers Monitor Autonomous Vehicles
Eliminating the safety “watchdogs” who typically ride in autonomous vehicles (AVs) is a big step for technologists and legislators alike. A shuttle at Texas A&M university is...
News Unmanned Systems
New SMARTCenter Opens as North America’s Largest AV Test Facility
As notions advance regarding the evolving needs and requirements of automated-vehicle (AV) testing, there’s a concurrent focus on the capabilities available from the...
Articles Transportation
Data Connectivity in Heavy-Duty Vehicle Environments
Technology advancements are increasingly bringing a new level of connectivity to industrial and commercial vehicles. Customers are demanding functionality that automates or enhances...
News Test & Measurement
Protecting a Cyber-Physical Remote Diagnostic Communication System Against Cyberattacks
The increasing complexity of microcontroller-based E/E (electrical/electronic) systems that control heavy-duty trucks, buses and non-road mobile...
News Connectivity
Big Data, Big Benefits for Big Machines
The huge volumes of data created by on-vehicle systems are being mined to bring a range of benefits to vehicle operators and fleet managers. Predictive maintenance is becoming more common while data...
News Connectivity
Qualcomm Ready with Next-Gen Mobility Connectivity Hardware
If you start doing the modem math on the “everything-connected-to-everything” world swiftly headed our way, you could be in a worse position than the San Diego-based comm...
News Connectivity
The Navigator: As the World Turns to C-V2X, Europe Picks WiFi
Vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications is a relatively straightforward and inexpensive technology that has the potential to reduce crashes by improving driver situational...
News Aerospace
Wind River and Airbiquity Partner to Update Autonomous and Connected Vehicle Software Through Cloud-Based, Over-The-Air Technology
Wind River Systems, Inc. is partnering with Airbiquity, Inc. to develop a solution to proactively manage the...
Articles Aerospace
The CAN Bus: Driving the Future of Autonomous Military Vehicles
It’s a crisp November day in Michigan, and a convoy of British and American resupply vehicles are rumbling along at a comfortable 25 miles per hour. In the lead is a British Army...
Technical Innovation Communications
Security, Bandwidth Drive Over-The-Air Development
Over-the-air (OTA) updating has evolved rapidly from a limited function to a wide-ranging technology for keeping vehicle software up to date. As OTA moves deeper into the mainstream,...
Articles Communications
A New Approach to Satellite Communications
In the Heinrich Hertz satellite mission, which will be launched in 2020, the DLR Space Administration (German Aerospace Center) plans to develop and operate a German communications satellite. The chief...
News Communications
Nvidia Partners with AdaCore to Secure Self-Driving Firmware
As mobility software becomes increasingly complex and connected, so does the risk of human error and system safety. To combat this, New York-based software company AdaCore will...
News Internet of Things
Over-The-Air Affair
Vehicle connectivity is no longer an option in a world where the Internet of Things (IoT) continuously casts a broader net on the number and types of devices that interact with each other and exchange data.
News Connectivity
StreetDrone: Rolling R&D Vehicle for Small-Scale AV Developers
Even for well-funded automakers, suppliers, start-up businesses and academic institutions, the cost of developing specific technologies needed to support autonomous-vehicle (AV)...
Articles Power
Tackling the Thermal Challenges of Battery EVs
The falling cost of natural gas and its increasing use for electricity generation has helped build the environmental appeal of battery electric vehicles. BEV advocates point to the 95%...
News Power
Detecting Battery Leaks at Production Speeds
Inficon has launched what it said is an industry-first, robotic-compatible leak-detection system that can use either helium or hydrogen-forming gas to ferret out minuscule cracks in the batteries...
Technology Report Design
Nexteer Readies Steering Technologies for Autonomous and Mixed-Mode Driving
Steering-technology engineers continue to consider different solutions to the issue of whether a driver will be prepared to instantly take control from an...
News Software
FLYHT and Spectralux Avionics Integrate Systems to Deliver FANS-Over-Iridium Satellite Communications to Airlines
FLYHT Aerospace Solutions Ltd. of Calgary, Canada, and Spectalux Avionics of Redmond, Wash., have teamed up to integrate...
Articles Data Acquisition
The Bus Too Tough to Die
The venerable MIL-STD-1553B bus has survived remarkably well even as other more advanced solutions gained wide acceptance in the last few years. However, the fact remains that its maximum data rate of 1 Mb/s is orders...
News Manned Systems
Big Data and Next-Gen Prognostics for Heavy-Duty Vehicles
Diagnostics have been around for a long time and are well understood and standardized. Huge amounts of diagnostic data have piled up over the years; fortunately, the data is machine...
Articles Aerospace
In-Flight Real-Time Avionics Adaptation
Avionics is a very restricting domain for obvious safety reasons. Along with miniaturization comes the idea of integration. More functionality on one spot requires a good management of privacy and...
News Connectivity
Volvo Trucks, FedEx Demonstrate 3-Truck Platoon on North Carolina Highway
Volvo Trucks North America and FedEx are working together to study the benefits of platooning, recently driving three tractors pulling double 28-foot trailers down a...
Briefs Energy
Designing for Compressive Sensing: Compressive Art, Camouflage, Fonts, and Quick Response Codes
Compressive sensing (CS) is a relatively new field that has caused a lot of excitement in the signal processing community. It has superseded...
Briefs Aerospace
Custom Data Logger for Real-Time Remote Field Data Collections
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), CHL, FRF, had a need for a remote real-time data collection system to control instruments and log and communicate data from five observing...
News Communications
Attacking the Cybersecurity Threat
SAE Standards News aims to update readers on the extensive activity in the SAE Global Ground Vehicle Standards development arena, by more than 800 ground vehicle committees comprised of volunteers from global...
Articles Aerospace
Multiple Node Networking Using PCIe Interconnects
PCI Express (PCIe) interconnects, and how they can be used to support multiple node low latency data transfers over copper or optical cables, is gaining momentum in embedded computing solutions....
News Unmanned Systems
2016 SAE Congress: Fear of the Driverless Car as 2020 Approaches
What will connectivity and mobility be like in the 2020s? Although the start of the decade is less than four years away, an expert panel at the 2016 SAE World Congress cited...
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