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Engineers Are Re-Engineering Ford
When your market share has plummeted more than two percentage points since 2013, your product range is growing cobwebs, your dealers are screaming for new models and you’ve recently lost one of your top...
Editorial Transportation
Fear and Loathing on the Path to Level 4 Driving
One of the perks of my job is access to the latest vehicles. Such hands-on product exposure is essential, I believe, for understanding the rapid advances of automated-driving technology and...
Editorial Power
Does Autonomy Have Room for the ‘Engineer Enthusiast?’
It’s no secret that car companies cultivate the “engineer enthusiasts” in their ranks to work on niche models and other special projects intended to demonstrate that...
Editorial Green Design & Manufacturing
EVs Lack a Robust Charging Grid
The flames lit up the sky when the electric-power substation in my town blew up one night last August. TV news had it covered: A transformer at the Detroit Edison site had exploded, immediately knocking out...
News Electronics & Computers
Deep Learning How to Drive
Learning to drive as a teen is a rite of passage, my own experiences indelibly marked in my brain. But the “brain” learning to drive in the future won’t be blowing out sixteen candles, if Nvidia has its way....
Editorial Propulsion
Beleaguered Diesel Could Use a Break—or a Breakthrough
Start talking car-business “big-picture” with engineers and once you hash out autonomy for the thousandth time, the discussion invariably comes to diesel. Is diesel...
News Data Acquisition
Kickoff to Begin Testing Program to Validate SAE J2954 Wireless Charging Recommended Practice
SAE International Ground Vehicle Standards activity is recruiting industry participants for a Cooperative Research Project (CRP) for Safe and...
Editorial Design
Stoking the Creative, Innovative Engineer
A book for academia as well as practicing engineers who want to unlock their potential.
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Core Ford, New Ford…One Ford?
Soon after news broke late on May 22 that Ford Motor Co. was replacing its president and CEO, the calls, emails and texts started to roll in.
Editorial Electronics & Computers
CNH Advances Driverless Tech for Tractors
Precision farming and machine automation already play a significant role in agriculture. CNH Industrial’s Innovation Group is focusing on key times of the year when farm work still requires long...
Editorial Unmanned Systems
Vital Transformation
Almost lost in discussions about autonomous-driving technology are the “other” road users and how they fit into the driverless, robotic-vehicle future.
News Propulsion
What’s Old (And Revered) Is New Again
Apart from top brass and various other engineering true believers at Mercedes-Benz, perhaps no one was more delighted than me when it was confirmed a couple of years ago that Mercedes was introducing...
News Manufacturing & Prototyping
Automotive Influence on Off-Highway Cabs
Describing new features and technologies for off-highway vehicles as “automotive-style” sometimes comes off as marketing hype—words meant to tap into views that passenger vehicles are more...
Editorial Electronics & Computers
A How-To for Car Hackers
The new vehicle you’ve just spent 40 months engineering, testing and validating, that’s soon to be in customer hands, is now a big, fat target. The hackers want in.
Editorial Manned Systems
Bad Gas?
It’s often the case with proverbs that many are of uncertain derivation. That’s true of one of my go-to favorites: “May you live in interesting times.”
Editorial Electronics & Computers
Commercial Vehicles in a Digital World
“We don’t want to have a Detroit and a Las Vegas,” said Matthias Wissmann, President of the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) at an international press workshop in advance of...
Editorial Automotive
‘Military-Grade’ Aluminum
When Teddy Roosevelt led his Rough Riders in their famous charge up San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War, he was carrying a piece of leading-edge military technology: an aluminum canteen. Since that...
News Manufacturing & Prototyping
Disruption Is One Thing, But...
A late-spring brouhaha that developed between Tesla Motors and an intrepid reporter known for skeptical Tesla coverage blew over fairly quickly—but not before highlighting some unaccounted costs of...
Editorial Automotive
Elon, Henry, and the Mastery of Manufacturing
“Do you want to make a bet on Musk’s latest pronouncement?” asked my friend the Tier 1 supplier engineer, whose company is part of Tesla’s supply chain.
News RF & Microwave Electronics
Send in Yamaguchi!
Ted Klaus is not given to hyperbole. So when the Chief Engineer of Honda’s 2017 NSX says something is “the best,” he means it. And that’s how Klaus described hearing Jack Yamaguchi’s first impressions of the...
News Green Design & Manufacturing
Stage V-Ready Engines Take Center Stage at Bauma
Mid-April in Munich marks the 31st edition of the largest trade fair in the world, Bauma. With more than 3400 exhibitors and 530,000 visitors at the last iteration in 2013—not quite the...
Editorial Transportation
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,...
News Green Design & Manufacturing
Mainstreaming Hybrids and EVs
Will the inefficiency of the automobile ultimately doom the automobile? Big questions like this one, posed by Ford Technical Fellow Dr. Michael Tamor, hit February’s SAE Hybrid & Electric Vehicle Symposium...
News Electronics & Computers
High-Voltage Developments
The concept of higher-voltage electrical systems in vehicles between 12-volt conventional and 200- and 600-volt full hybrids and electric vehicles is not new, with development experiencing fits and starts over the...
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