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Autonomous Operations for Heavy-Duty Trucks Are Coming down the Road
Although some commercial vehicle fleets and owners remain skeptical about autonomous driving and the implications for their big rigs traveling down the highway, the fact...
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How OEMs Can Keep up with New Product Innovations
To compete in the off-highway equipment market OEMs must continually invest in new equipment designs to meet ever-increasing emission regulations, equipment accuracy and aesthetic model...
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Volvo CE Launches Its Largest Excavator and Articulated Hauler
During the company’s nearly hour-long briefing at Bauma 2016 in Munich, Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) President Martin Weissburg underscored how the company remains...
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New Dawn at Honda R&D
Honda’s new 10-speed automatic has not yet entered production, but it is already among the technologies that competitors are clamoring to benchmark when it enters the market. Designed and built in house, the new...
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Automated Driving Meets Regulation NHTSA and the Next 50 Years
HTSA Administrator Mark Rosekind recently spoke on the prospects for reaching zero deaths on America’s roads. “Conceptually, the challenge is extremely straightforward. If...
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Hands Off, Eyes Off, Brain Off
Euro NCAP’s president warns that without coherent policies, the growing availability of automated technologies may result in piecemeal technology development—and unintentional consequences. Read on to learn more.
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Designer Yin Meets Engineer Yang
The interface between design and engineering may be the oldest yin-and-yang in vehicle development. And while there are numerous challenges in turning the stylists’ work into practical, manufacturable and...
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New York Auto Show 2016: Lincoln Unveils Big-SUV Future with Navigator Concept
Intent on staying on its message of reinvigorating its brand under the banner of “quiet luxury,” Ford’s premium-vehicle unit, Lincoln, used the 2016 New...
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Mahindra Launches New Blazo Heavy-Truck Series with FuelSmart Multi-Drive
Mahindra Truck and Bus Division (MTBD) recently launched its new heavy commercial truck series under the brand name Blazo. The Blazo series includes haulage,...
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Lockheed Martin LM-100J Starts Taking (A Similar) Shape
Wing production for the first Lockheed Martin LM-100J commercial multi-purpose freighter has begun in Marietta, GA, which is also home to the C-130J Super Hercules final assembly line....
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2016 SAE Congress: Is Biomimicry in Your Design Future?
Animals, birds, and mammals are natural-born innovators that can inspire automotive engineers to create novel technologies. The term for such an influence is biomimicry.
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Farthest-Reaching Articulating Boom Lift Among New JLG Products Showcased at Bauma
JLG Industries, Inc., an Oshkosh Corp. company and global manufacturer of aerial work platforms and telescopic material handlers, introduced several new...
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Nissan Targets Cabin NVH, Makes Big Investment in Sentra Upgrade
Significant updates to the seventh generation Sentra make the 2016 model Nissan’s quietest and most dynamic-driving compact sedan to date. The automaker invested more than...
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Defying the disruptors and Driving Innovation
Need proof of the auto industry’s crazy pace of change? Look no further than the daily news, where reports of each emergent player — and their impact on what remains of the status quo —...
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Preparing for a 48-volt Revival
More than a decade after the widely anticipated 42-volt electrical revolution died—the victim of increasingly efficient 12-volt components, wiring strategies, and digital controls—demand for greater...
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Evaluating Thermal Design of Construction Vehicles
Design and evaluation of construction equipment and vehicles constitute a very important but expensive and time-consuming part of the engineering process, due to a large number of...
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C'mon Jeep, Walk the Walk
I stopped counting the marketing presentations I’ve attended that included a slide with the alleged Henry Ford quote regarding the folly of soliciting customer opinion: “If I had asked people what they wanted,...
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2017 Cadillac XT5 Brings Superior Dynamics to Luxo-Crossover Segment
Almost bizarrely for a car brand—and for a nation renowned for its predilection for large vehicles—GM's Cadillac is far behind its German premium-brand rivals in...
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Bombardier C Series Taking off in Europe
In early March, Bombardier said that it had started month-long CS100 aircraft route-proving exercises in Europe. The dedicated CS100 is operated by Bombardier from launch operator Swiss Air Line’s...
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Aurora Developing Distributed Hybrid-Electric Propulsion System for VTOL X-Plane
Aurora Flight Sciences has officially made it to Phase 2 of DARPA’s Vertical Takeoff and Landing Experimental Plane (VTOL X-Plane) program and will be...
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Mr. Bond, Your DB11 Is Ready with Aston Martin's Latest Aero Advancements
The new Aston Martin DB11 2+2 unveiled at the Geneva Show introduced a number of new features in an evolution of the V12-powered DB9. Aston Martin speaks of a new...
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How Porsche Met Cooling Challenges on the New 4-Cylinder Boxster
New engines always bring fresh design and engineering challenges, but Porsche’s switch to a turbocharged flat 4-cylinder for the latest generation 718 Boxster created one...
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New Komatsu Wheel Loader with Tier 4F Engine Consumes 13% less Fuel
Equipped with an EPA Tier 4 Final certified engine, the new WA600-8 wheel loader from Komatsu combines an enhanced lockup torque converter function and SmartLoader logic to...
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Arctic Cat Debuts Purpose-Built 'Snow Bike' in 2017 Model Line
Arctic Cat’s recently unveiled snowmobile lineup for the 2017 model year includes an OEM industry first: the all-new SVX 450 purpose-built, single-ski snow bike. Other 2017...
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Agility Training for Cars
As personal mobility moves toward the perhaps inevitable singularity of automatically piloted pods able to totally isolate passengers from any sensation of the surrounding world, today’s manually piloted cars are adding systems to aid with guidance and improve isolation from bumps in the road. Read on to learn more.
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Long-Range Air Force Strategies Include New B-21 Long-Range Bomber
With the Government Accountability Office (GOA) recently ruling in Northrop Grumman’s favor for the contract for the U.S. Air Force’s new long-range strike bomber, which...
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A Tern Toward a Full-Scale VTOL UAV Demonstrator
Communication is key, during war or peace. In this day and age, both require the ability to conduct airborne intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), at will and upon demand. But...
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2017 Nissan Armada Steps onto Patrol Platform
No longer sharing its platform with the Titan full-size pickup truck, the all-new 2017 Nissan Armada full-size SUV is now attached to one of the automaker's most iconic nameplates that...
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Nissan Readies Light-Duty Version of Titan Pickup
At February’s Chicago auto show, Nissan revealed the 2017 light-duty (half-ton) version of the Titan pickup as the promised follow-up to the 2016 Titan XD quasi-commercial model that...
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