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Hyundai’s ‘Edgy’ New Ideas for Safety Testing
In June 2022, Hyundai Motor America broke ground for its Safety Test and Investigation Laboratory (STIL), an industry-unique testing facility dedicated to root-cause crash investigations...
Briefs Sensors/Data Acquisition
Evaluation of Environmental Sensors in Training: Performance Outcomes and Symptoms during Airborne and Combatives Training
Investigating the feasibility and potential validity of using biomechanical environmental sensor technologies to improve the detection of potentially concussive events that could lead to mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI).
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...
Briefs Sensors/Data Acquisition
Sensory Integration Balance Deficits in Complex mTBI: Can Early Initiation of Rehabilitation with Wearable Sensor Technology Improve Outcomes?
A novel feedback system provides physical therapists with real-time information about quality of head and trunk movement during exercise.
Articles Manned Systems
Bosch Quantifies Cost Savings for ADAS-Equipped Trucks
Heavy-duty trucks still are disproportionately involved in deadly crashes on U.S. roadways. “Ten percent of the fatalities involve large trucks when large trucks only account for 4%...
News Regulations/Standards
Underwriters Labs Publishes First AV Safety Standard
On April 1, 2020, Underwriters Laboratories (UL) announced that it published UL 4600 as an American National Standard. With its publication, UL 4600 became the auto industry’s first...
News Design
Silicon Valley Summit Refines Autonomous Safety Thinking
Until recently, leading autonomous vehicle (AV) technologists posited that ultra-safe, go-anywhere robotaxis would soon be on the road. But questions about those timelines –and the...
News Manned Systems
How HMI Displays Impact Operator Productivity in Industrial Vehicles
The latest research indicates that well-integrated HMI (human-machine interface) systems lead to more attentive users that better retain task-related information and stay...
Technology Report Test & Measurement
Honda Ready with New Injury-Reducing Airbag
Starting next year, Honda will begin fitting vehicles with a new, advanced-design passenger-side front airbag that its engineers said is designed to mitigate brain and neck injuries by cradling...
News RF & Microwave Electronics
Viziblezone Enables Vehicle-To-Pedestrian Collision Avoidance Through Technology Already in Our Cell Phones
Viziblezone Ltd.’s vehicle-to-pedestrian (V2P) solution to autonomous vehicles or “self-driving cars” is now capable of...
Articles Connectivity
Hot New ‘Hands-On’ Turn in ADAS Safety Research
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) recently revealed novel research into a driver-safety aid: a sensory steering wheel rim that heats or cools on each side to warn of upcoming GPS-directed...
News RF & Microwave Electronics
NASA Crash Landing Is a Complete Success
NASA just crash landed a Fokker F28 Mark 1000 Fellowship short-range, narrow-body airliner. The event, an experiment to gather crash-safety data, occurred at NASA Langley Research Center’s Landing...
News AR/AI
'Road Race' for AV Testing May Be Slowing
Chris Hoyle, Technical Director of software specialist rFpro, believes the race by auto and technology companies to be ahead of competitor programs involving autonomous vehicle (AV) testing on...
News Unmanned Systems
WCX 2019: The AV “Money Race” Is On
Automated-and-connected vehicles may be on a longer adoption path than the hype around them suggests, but AVs and their related technologies will eventually become a multi-trillion-dollar market,...
News Unmanned Systems
WCX 2019: Regulators Grapple with Autonomous Challenges
The long reach of autonomous vehicles clearly extends to the regulatory environment, which will undergo changes that are as significant as those seen in the discipline of engineering...
The Navigator 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 on...
News Regulations/Standards
Scooter, scat?
The widening concept of Shared Active Transportation (SAT) encompasses a variety of configurations of small vehicles rented for short distances or brief durations to facilitate urban mobility and includes docked and...
Briefs Sensors/Data Acquisition
Inter-Laboratory Combat Helmet Blunt Impact Test Method Comparison
As the medical community learns more about brain injury, the importance of blunt impact mitigation becomes more apparent. As such, it is critical to make sure that research labs...
Technical Innovation Manufacturing & Prototyping
Denso Bringing Driver Monitoring to Commercial-Vehicle Market
According to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), 4,440 large trucks and buses were involved in fatal accidents in 2016—a 29% increase since 2009. Driver...
News Manned Systems
Bob Lutz at SAE WCX 2018: ‘It’s All Over’ for Brands, Driving Pleasure
Speaking to a crowd of hundreds of engineers at SAE International’s WCX 2018 in Detroit, long-serving auto-industry executive and revered “car guy” Bob Lutz...
News Connectivity
Jaguar, Waymo to Partner for Automated Driving with New I-Pace EV
Alphabet’s Waymo automated-driving unit aLand Rover announced prior to the 2018 New York auto show the two companies will partner with Jaguar Land Rover to develop...
Application Briefs Aerospace
Virtual Environment-Based Training Tools
Charles River Analytics Cambridge, MA 617-491-3474www.cra.com Charles River Analytics Inc., a developer of intelligent systems solutions, has received a follow-on contract from the US Navy to develop...
Briefs Defense
Multi-Temporal Analysis of Underbody IED Theater Events on Ground Vehicles
Recently, modeling and simulation (M&S) engineers have made impressive strides in improving ground vehicle reliability and soldier safety. This work involved...
Application Briefs Defense
Tourniquet Training System
Charles River Analytics Cambridge, MA 617-491-3474 www.cra.com The Department of Defense recently awarded Charles River Analytics, a developer of intelligent systems and robotic platforms, a follow-on contract for...
Briefs Test & Measurement
Selective, Sensitive, and Robust Electrochemical Detection of Anthrax
There exists an unmet need for rapid, sensitive, and field-stable assays for pathogen detection. Bacillus anthracis is the causative agent of anthrax poisoning. This Gram-positive bacterium secretes a tripartite toxin including a cell-binding protective antigen (PA), and the...
Articles Aerospace
Reaching the Benchmark in Secure Unmanned Vehicle Software
Security concerns currently dominate software thinking wherever sensitive or safety-critical information is potentially accessible. Embedded software is no exception. Security...
News Design
GM Creates New Executive Position to Oversee Safety Globally
Amid its recall of 1.62 million vehicles for faulty ignition switches, linked to 12 fatalities, General Motors Co. on March 18 announced the creation of a new position, Vice...
Application Briefs Aerospace
Pictorial Representation Tool for First-Aid Training
Charles River AnalyticsCambridge, MA617-491-3474www.cra.com Reducing combat fatalities demands quick and effective emergency care on the battlefield, and all soldiers are expected to provide...
Application Briefs Defense
Realistic Simulation Makes Army Helmets Safer
As materials, ergonomic design, and ballistics protection have evolved, the U.S. Army helmet has improved in form and function, from the M1 of WWII, to the 29-layer Kevlar PASGT (Personnel Armor...
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Designing an HVAC Modeling Workflow for Cabin Energy Management...
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