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Nodar's GridDetect: Look, Ma, No Lidar!
The streets of Munich look different when seen through a Nodar point cloud created by a set of stereo cameras. Nodar’s Hammerhead technology uses two standard, automotive-grade CMOS cameras...
Articles Software
The ‘Framework’ for AV Development
Over the last 100 years, the transportation industry has been developed primarily around human operators. For example, roadway signs were designed to be easily seen, read and interpreted by humans....
Articles AR/AI
AV Simulation Testing Faces a Long and Winding Road
Right now, millions of virtual vehicles are driving millions of virtual miles. Their long-term digital mission is to make high-level vehicle automation a reality. Settling on the best...
News Unmanned Systems
Provizio Eyes Safety with Radar, Not LiDAR
"Safety first” is more than a catchphrase. For sensing company Provizio, it’s the only way the transportation industry should introduce autonomous vehicles. In Provizio’s view, using AV...
News Unmanned Systems
WCX 2023: Can You Drive like SAE J3300
A valid driver’s license from any country put attendees in the driver’s seat at SAE WCX 2023, allowing them to test their driving skills using SAE J3300, the driving skills standard used to...
Articles Test & Measurement
The Road to Zero Prototypes
The concept of designing, engineering and manufacturing a new vehicle without physical prototypes is typically viewed as either impractical or mythical. Even as virtual development processes have become...
Articles Manned Systems
Tesla’s FSD Recall Impacts AV Industry
On February 16, 2023, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced that Tesla had voluntarily agreed to recall 362,758 Model S, Model X, Model 3 and Model Y vehicles – the...
Articles Unmanned Systems
Autonomous Jobsites Edge Closer to Reality
Will the construction industry ever get to a point where the sight of humans on a jobsite is a rarity? Judging by the increasing number of projects demonstrating autonomous construction...
Articles Transportation
From Emissions Tech to EV Electronics
A recent visit to Eberspaecher’s North American engineering and manufacturing complex reveals how a global Tier-1 rooted in combustion-engine technology is profitably navigating the transition to...
News Unmanned Systems
Sony Jumps into AV Sensors, Software
The growing prominence of sensor-based driving systems is creating opportunities for electronics companies to enter the auto industry. After years of speculation about Apple launching an electric...
Articles Design
Making the Strategic Move into AV Testing
Traditional powertrain testing can be full of challenges. But it doesn’t compare to the often-bizarre edge cases that confront those testing automated-vehicle systems. Just ask Tom Tasky. He...
The Navigator Regulations/Standards
C-2VX Is Finally Gaining Momentum in the U.S.
Vehicle to everything (V2X) communications has had a rough go in North America. After more than a decade of development on the Wi-Fi-based dedicated short-range communications (DSRC)...
Editorial Manned Systems
Making Safety Standard
I’m not sure who claims to have coined the often-repeated phrase, “Safety comes standard.” But that tagline came to mind as authorities in Texas and officials with the National Transportation Safety Board...
News Data Acquisition
The Navigator: Mapping the Way to Safe Automated Driving
When it comes to automated driving systems (ADS), Tesla CEO Elon Musk often runs counter to the consensus of almost everyone else in the sector. His disdain for lidar sensing is...
Articles Connectivity
Autonomy Takes Off-Highway
Autonomous operation for on-highway commercial vehicles has grabbed headlines and public attention, rightfully so since these haulers increasingly will share the roads with passenger vehicles. But there is a...
News AR/AI
New Roles for Lidar in Autonomy’s Lower Levels
Laser-based li ght d etection a nd r anging (lidar) sensors were only recently thought to be applicable within the realm of fully automated vehicles (AVs). The spinning lidar...
SAE Standards News Connectivity
New Cooperative Driving Automation Standard Provides Clarity to Support Advancement of Full Automation
In May, amid quarantine and lockdowns for the Coronavirus pandemic, SAE International published SAE J3216 Standard: Taxonomy and Definitions for Terms Related to Cooperative Driving Automation for On-Road Motor Vehicles. The new standard...
Articles Electronics & Computers
Radar’s Evolving Role in ADAS and the AV Future
Until recently, various vehicle OEMs were vying to be first to put self-driving cars on the road by the magical turn of the decade. But as 2020 arrived, the bullish tone has switched to...
Technical Innovation Regulations/Standards
New Best Practice Establishes Commonly Defined Terms, Conceptual Framework for ADS ODD
The Automated Vehicle Safety Consortium (AVSC), an industry program of SAE Industry Technologies Consortia (SAE ITC), released a new best practice in...
News Unmanned Systems
When Will AVs Become Reality? Answer: When Safety Science Catches Up.
Over the last 70 years, computing solutions have fundamentally shifted major parts of the world economy. The first wave optimized centralized G&A functions through...
Articles Energy
Quadricycle AV Pod Pops Open in London
Mobility “pods” regularly pop up in the automated-driving universe and the latest is a quadricycle prototype called MOTIV, claimed by its creators to “break the mold for future mobility...
News Power
Autonomy Already Influencing Vehicle Interior Design
Just about everyone’s seen a recent rendering of future vehicle interiors, but high-function driver assistance, automated driving and mobility as a service (MaaS) are new dimensions...
News RF & Microwave Electronics
ZF’s Autonomous Systems Head Takes a Pragmatic View of the ‘Levels’ Playing Field
“We are constantly asking this question: Who is the customer likely to buy an SAE Level 4 autonomous vehicle in the consumer passenger market?”...
News Unmanned Systems
Autonomy in Your Face
Research into potential automotive applications for biometrics ─ facial and retina scans or fingerprints ─ is increasing, despite rising concerns about privacy and data security, and outcries from civil...
News Manned Systems
2019 World Traffic Safety Symposium Focuses on AV Regulation
How should automated vehicles (AV) avoid erroneous traffic tickets? How can highway work zones be standardized to enable safe AV use? Are bridges structurally sound enough to...
News Photonics/Optics
New R&D Boss Details RoboSense’s LiDAR Strategy
LiDAR technology is one of the busiest areas of engineering for self-driving cars, and some people have been working on the technology for over a decade. Dr. Leilei Shinohara (below),...
News Unmanned Systems
Computer-Generated Scenes Provide Virtual Testing for Autonomous Vehicles
The next million miles of autonomous-vehicle test roadways await in a start-up company’s virtual -orld toolbox that is targeting its next release for early...
News Manned Systems
Needed - a Step Beyond STEM
For more than a decade, education advocates have made the case for a greater effort in teaching kids about science, technology, engineering and math. As an engineer, I’m all for STEM. More of our population needs to understand these topics. However, as I get older and continue to observe the impact of technology...
News Materials
Citroën Frames a Motion-Sickness Solution
Following Jaguar Land Rover’s (JLR’s) detailing of a new system to help alleviate motion sickness in vehicles, French company Citroën has announced its own undeniably unique solution:...
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INSIDERManned Systems
Army Launches M1E3 Tank Development, Cancels M1 Abrams Upgrade Program -...
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The B-21 Raider Starts Flight Testing - Mobility Engineering Technology
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Air Force Awards JetZero $235 Million to Develop Blended Wing Body Demonstrator...
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Air Force Receives First eVTOL Six Months Ahead of Schedule - Mobility...
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Air Force to Buy Archer eVTOL Under New Contracts - Mobility Engineering...
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Rim-Driven Electric Aircraft Propulsion - Mobility Engineering Technology
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Research Lab
What Really Changed: A Look at the Updated FDA Guidance Document...
Power
Electrifying Off-Highway Drivetrains
Electronics & Computers
NVH Prediction in Electric Powertrains: Considering Inverter and...
Manufacturing & Prototyping
The Smaller the Part, the Bigger the Advantages of Miniature Aluminum Extrusions
Aerospace
Here's an Idea: How AI is Changing Military Aircraft Maintenance and More
Medical
Precision, Control and Repeatability: Harnessing the Power of UV Curing in...