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CASE Struggles to Fulfil Expectations
The saying ‘Two steps forward, one step back’ describes the overall progress of CASE — Connected, Autonomous, Shared and Electrified vehicles and infrastructures. While electrification and...
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Inner Visions
Evolving market realities have OEMs and automated-driving developers adjusting once-aggressive timelines for deploying high-level driving automation. But new materials and safety technology for vehicle interiors continue...
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Volvo’s Electric High-Wire Act
Under a circus-size tent in downtown Stockholm, Volvo recently introduced its new high-wire act — one with its share of nail-biting risk.
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Volvo Leads the Shift to ‘Driver Understanding’
Volvo started teasing out some of the details of its all-electric replacement for the XC90 SUV, dubbed the EX90.
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Allison Advances Commercial-Vehicle Electronic Controls
Allison Transmission continues to invest in and accelerate its electric-vehicle propulsion solutions, but it also remains committed to its conventional product portfolio, which the...
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Electrification Forces Fresh Perspectives on Vehicle NVH
The quietness of EVs is, for many, a compelling selling point. But vehicles becoming inherently quieter overall hasn’t translated into making the job of noise abatement any...
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Veoneer Shows Its Latest Safety and AV Tech
Veoneer CEO Jacob Svanberg gazes at a large flat-screen display from a demonstrator van’s second-row seat. The screen shows hundreds of colored dots, including a dozen purple pixels...
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Toyota Reinvesting in Collaborative Safety Research
To adapt to a swiftly changing mobility ecosystem, Toyota announced on April 27 a new five-year, $30-million investment in its Ann Arbor, Michigan-based Collaborative Safety Research...
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In-Vehicle Software and Services Are Transforming the Industry
The auto industry is undergoing its most dramatic transformation in more than a century, and tomorrow’s vehicles will not only be electrified but as directly linked to the...
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SAE WCX 2022: OEM Learnings from Level 2 ADAS
Drivers behave differently when a driver assist technology is engaged. They tend to drive faster, look away from the road more often and for longer periods of time, and they engage in...
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Peterbilt, Aurora Reveal SAE Level 4 Autonomous Truck
Peterbilt and Aurora have unveiled an autonomous-capable truck at CES 2022 in Las Vegas. The autonomous drive system, dubbed Aurora Driver, is making its commercial truck debut in a...
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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...
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3D Holographic Head-Up Display Could Improve Road Safety
The LiDAR-based system could “see through” objects to warn of potential hazards without distracting the driver.
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Toyota Tops 2021 OEM-Supplier Relations Study
For a record eleventh-straight year, Toyota outperformed six major U.S. and Japanese automakers in a benchmark annual study of automotive OEM-supplier working relations as viewed by...
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Mercedes Kicks off Dedicated EV Lineup with Flagship EQS
Mercedes-Benz has revealed the all-new 2022 EQS EV sedan. The EQS is the first all-electric luxury 4-door model from Mercedes built upon a dedicated (and modular) EV platform. The...
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Ford Gets in the ‘Hands-Free’ Game with BlueCruise
There's a whole lot about Ford's hands-free driving technology that the automaker isn't revealing just yet. But at least it now has a name – BlueCruise – and some preliminary...
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Honda, Toyota Intro More-Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems
Honda and Toyota each recently announced the release of new, more-sophisticated driver-assistance systems for a special range of vehicles available in Japan starting in March...
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Bosch’s EV Efficiency Upgrade: Continuously Variable Transmissions
As electric vehicles (EVs) move from niche offerings to mainstream roles in the product portfolios of the world’s traditional automakers, research and development to...
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CES 2021: Bosch Consolidates Computing Talent in New Mobility Division
Bosch announced on January 7 during its CES 2021 conference event that it has created a new division labeled Cross-Domain Computing Solutions (CDCC). The CDCC...
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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...
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Purpose, Perceptions for Driver-Assist Tech Solidify
A panel of automated-driving experts at this week’s virtual presentation of SAE International’s annual Government/Industry Meeting had strong opinions on the current state of...
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Automated, Electric Monarch Tractor Ready for 2021 Deliveries
“If you want to fundamentally improve your economics,” said Monarch Tractor co-founder and CTO Zachary Omohundro to farmers and growers everywhere, “you go electric.”...
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CES 2021: Cadillac Shows off Multiple EV Concepts
Cadillac unveiled three electric vehicle (EV) concepts at CES 2021. They included the Halo Portfolio autonomous van, the VTOL (Vertical Take-Off and Landing) Concept autonomous aircraft...
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Ford Expands EV Lineup with E-Transit Cargo Van
Ford revealed on November 12 its next fully electric vehicle (EV), the 2022 E-Transit cargo van, with the automaker’s new president and CEO Jim Farley stating, “The transition of fleet...
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New Solutions for Sanitizing Autonomous Vehicles
If not for the word “mucosalivary,” the following analysis could have come from a combustion-engine technical paper: “Recent work has demonstrated that exhalations, sneezes, and...
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Magna Charging Ahead on Contract EV Production
Magna isn’t waiting around for the electrified world to come to the company. As one of the few Tier-1 suppliers with full-vehicle manufacturing capabilities, the Ontario, Canada-based...
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Supplier Tech Gets the Germs Out
Confidence in autonomous and rideshare mobility took a significant dive in 2020, as consumers shunned public transport due to the coronavirus pandemic. Technologies to safeguard the health and safety of...
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In Pursuit of the Silky-Smooth EV
For next-generation electric vehicles (EVs), absolute smoothness in every operating mode will be an essential criterion. It will be a product differentiator, along with greater range, while raising the...
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What We’re Driving: 2020 Nissan Sentra 2.0 SR CVT
Easily mistaken for its Altima big brother at first glance, the 2020 Nissan Sentra finally gets the all-new platform, exterior style and interior upgrades that this thrifty compact has...
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