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CES 2025: Bosch Goes Right with Wrong-Way Alerts, Racing Hand Controls
Bosch took to CES 2025 with positive messages about its safety, accessibility and AI technologies, which it said will impact both the people who drive vehicles with its...
Supplier Eye Power
A New Reckoning
As the industry worked through accelerated production volumes last decade, there were few concerns surrounding low capacity utilization in our fixed-cost-heavy North American ecosystem. With the benefit of stronger demand and...
Executive Viewpoints Data Acquisition
Advancing HMI Development of ADAS and Active Safety Systems
The advancement of vehicles with enhanced safety and infotainment features has made evaluating human-machine interfaces (HMI) in modern commercial and industrial vehicles crucial....
Technology Report Materials
NVH-Fighting Plastic EV Motor Mount Wins Lightweighting Award
Most motor mounts, even for EV applications, are made of metal alloys. It makes intuitive sense: It’s a vibration-intensive mounting application that demands durability that...
Original Equipment Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Cat Reveals All-New 255 and 265 Compact Track Loaders
Caterpillar revealed its next-generation 255 and 265 compact track loaders at its Edwards Demonstration and Learning Center in Peoria, Illinois, in October. Based on D3 series, the 255...
Articles Materials
Why the Turbomachinery Industry is Increasingly Bullish on Additive Manufacturing
Whether we’re talking about industrial turbines, air breathing jet engines, or liquid-rocket space applications, the higher the pressure and the higher the flow rate, the better the performance.
Articles Mechanical & Fluid Systems
New Approach to Viscosity Enables Complex Motions in Soft Robots
Cornell researchers have laid the foundation for developing a new class of untethered soft robots that can achieve more complex motions with less reliance on explicit computation.
Articles AR/AI
Breathing Life into Artificial Intelligence and Next Generation Autonomous Aerospace Systems
When it comes to image recognition in today’s AI world, a human is required to initially train the underlying system to recognize an object.
Articles Design
Spelling Ford with an ‘E’
One year ago, Ford Motor Co. kicked off a new era in its long history when it bifurcated into two strategically interdependent auto businesses. Ford Blue, the “traditional” business, is responsible for the...
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Airflow Concept Presents Chrysler EV Direction
In a far corner of the main exhibition hall of the 2022 New York International Auto Show, its display flanked by the latest products from Ram and Jeep, Stellantis rolled out a second edition...
Editorial AR/AI
Autonomous Timeline: Following the Money
Acquisitions, mergers and outright departures from the sector serve as almost weekly reminders not just that significant consolidation of autonomous-vehicle (AV) development is underway. Right in...
Articles Unmanned Systems
Aptiv’s Satellite Route to ‘Democratizing’ Autonomous Tech
Despite the myriad challenges the world faced in 2020, it was a "great year of growth” for Aptiv, the technology company formerly known as Delphi Automotive, according to...
Articles Energy
Volvo CE, Norrhydro Team to ‘Revolutionize’ Digital Hydraulics
A patented, multi-chamber digital hydraulic actuator developed by Finland-based Norrhydro is set to “revolutionize machine hydraulic performance,” according to the OEM...
Technology Report Sensors/Data Acquisition
CES 2021: Mercedes-Benz Hyperscreen Brings Dash-Wide Displays to Production
Mercedes-Benz has unveiled its new Hyperscreen, a 56-inch IP-display that will debut on its 2022 EQS EV sedan and serve as the visual cornerstone of its MBUX...
News Connectivity
Illuminating New Roles for Vehicle Lighting
Vehicle lighting used to be about seeing and being seen, but Audi has much larger ambitions for automotive illumination. New LED and digital control technologies are moving the humble headlamp...
Briefs Test & Measurement
Bioenvironmental Engineering Guide for Composite Materials
Develop a comprehensive baseline for identifying, evaluating, and controlling occupational and environmental hazards associated with composite fibers.
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Nissan Reveals Design for Next-Generation Z Sportscar
Giving hope to automotive enthusiasts that niche models will remain in at least some automakers’ lineups, Nissan this week revealed the Z Proto, “signaling the company's intent to...
News Manned Systems
Is Ground-Penetrating Radar the Next Innovation for Automated-Vehicle Sensing?
Most of the existing autonomous-vehicle (AV) localization strategies try to replicate how human drivers perceive the world. But reliable autonomy requires new...
News Test & Measurement
2021 Chevrolet Suburban High Country
GM engineers tell me that their latest full-size light truck program, which most recently spawned the 2021 Chevy Suburban and GMC Yukon, encompassed nearly 10,000 engineering and technical staff during...
Editorial Unmanned Systems
Clean Is the New Safety Paradigm for AV Development
Privately-owned vehicles were never so safe as they are today. Nor have they made so much sense. That thought hit me between the nostrils recently, as I sprayed a pungent disinfectant on...
News Unmanned Systems
JLR Developing a “Morphable” Smart Seat
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) Research Lead Engineer Dave Withey has invented a seat design that may be the closest yet to a fits-all system for comfort and safety. Rather than use pneumatics for...
News Unmanned Systems
Faurecia Creates ‘Personal Bubbles’ for AVs
App-led exercises that unfold while seated, and audio selections heard via the seat headrest illustrate the types of wellness and comfort options that supplier Faurecia envisions with its...
Articles Energy
SAE Symposium Covers New Approaches in Thermal Management
Vehicle thermal management, once almost exclusively about safely rejecting powertrain heat, continues to evolve to dealing with two extremes in operation of battery electric...
News Manufacturing & Prototyping
Driver-Monitoring Systems to Be as Common as Seat Belts
Regulators across the globe, most notably in Europe, are calling for driver-monitoring systems to become standard vehicle-safety equipment. The ability for a vehicle to combine...
Application Briefs Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Precision 3D Bioprinter
nScrypt is now launching the nRugged 3D Bioprinter.
News Aerospace
‘Active Scents’ Show Potential to Enhance Cabin Experience and Improve Driver Safety
A Tel Aviv, Israel startup company is taking the now-familiar concept of aromatherapy to a new level. Saying its research into “active scents” can...
Articles 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...
What We’re Driving Materials
2019 VW Beetle Convertible Final Edition
Here it is: 2019 is the swan song for the Beetle. There’s baggage that goes along with Volkswagen’s “new” Beetle soldiering along many years longer than it should have, but this Final Edition...
Articles Connectivity
UofM Research Hopes to Eliminate That Queasy Feeling
As concerns mount around how automated-vehicle (AV) passengers will react to increasing degrees of driving detachment, researchers are trying to better understand how and why humans are...
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Army Launches CMOSS Prototyping Competition for Computer Chassis and Cards
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Microchip’s New Microprocessor to Enable Generational Leap in Spaceflight...
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The Future of Aerospace: Embracing Digital Transformation and Emerging...
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Making a Material Difference in Aerospace & Defense Electronics
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Making Machines Software-Defined No Simple Task
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Germany's New Military Surveillance Jet Completes First Flight
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Phase Change Materials in Electric Vehicles: Trends and a Roadmap...
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Navigating Security in Automotive SoCs: How to Build Resilient...
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Is Hydrogen Propulsion Production-Ready?
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Countering the Evolving Challenge of Integrating UAS Into Civilian Airspace
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Designing an HVAC Modeling Workflow for Cabin Energy Management and XiL Testing
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Best Practices for Developing Safe and Secure Modular Software