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Shifting Focus to Rising Costs
Welcome to 2019, a new year that’s already brimming with challenges for mobility-industry suppliers. As they deal with escalating technology investments, unpredictable product-launch cadences, an influx of...
News Unmanned Systems
The Navigator: The Not-So-Hidden Cost of “Free”
There is no such thing as a free lunch, as the old truism goes. For more than a century, the auto industry business model has been to sell it and forget it. Once you drove off the lot in...
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Bauma Industry Barometer: Tech-Focused in North America
The triennial behemoth of an off-highway trade fair, bauma, may be a few months away yet, but setup for what essentially becomes a city of towering machinery began in November, with...
Q&A Automotive
Gearing Up Drive Axle Innovations
Tier 1 driveline systems supplier American Axle & Manufacturing currently has Quantum, its all-new family of lightweight beam axles with aluminum center housing, in customer evaluations. AE asked AAM's Jeffrey Nichols to explain the NASA technology inside the Quantum "pumpkin."
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Argus Cyber Security Responds Quickly to New Threats Via Over-The-Air Updates
The commercial vehicle (CV) industry provides a unique challenge to cybersecurity companies due to their length of use and multitude of usage profiles that trucks...
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Knorr-Bremse Puts the Brakes on Automated Driving
The German commercial-vehicle supplier used the IAA stage in Hanover to demonstrate its expertise in highly automated driving (HAD) functions—environment recognition, decision-making and...
Road Ready Manned Systems
Jeep’s Gladiator Takes up Arms in Midsize-Pickup Battle
Maybe the only thing more surprising than the fact it’s been more than a quarter-century since FiatChrysler’s Jeep brand sold a pickup truck is that it’s taken so long to pull...
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What We’re Driving: Mercedes-AMG E 53 4Matic+
Select “Sport+”, floor the gas pedal, listen to the engine and exhaust notes, and the essence of Mercedes-AMG’s latest E 53 sedan is sensationally clear. But shouldn’t this combo be...
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Ford Engineers a Tech Barrage with 2020 Lincoln Aviator
Ford Motor Co. officially launched its 2020 Lincoln Aviator at the 2018 Los Angeles auto show, with the all-new three-row midsized luxury SUV featuring a barrage of equally new and...
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Ford and Its Suppliers Take Top Honors at the 48th SPE Automotive Innovation Awards Competition
Ford Motor Co. took home top honors at this year's 48th SPE Automotive Innovation Awards Competition, winning the Grand Award for its...
News Electronics & Computers
Predicting the Road to Efficiency
Delphi Technologies isn’t coming right out to say most of us aren’t very good at driving efficiently, but there’s no getting around that’s what’s implied by the company’s new Intelligent Driving...
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Computer-Generated Scenes Provide Virtual Testing for Autonomous Vehicles
The next million miles of autonomous-vehicle test roadways await in a start-up company’s virtual -orld toolbox that is targeting its next release for early 2019.
News Unmanned Systems
2019 Toyota RAV4: Doubling down on a Best-Seller
To say the RAV4 is a crucial product for Toyota might be underselling it. In the U.S., the 5-seat, 5-door FWD/AWD C-class SUV is Toyota’s best-selling vehicle, the nation’s best-selling...
News Test & Measurement
Tekscan Goes Fast-Track with Its High-Speed Tire Scanning
A new electronic testing method lets engineers analyze the impact of speed, motion, and inertial forces that high-speed tires experience, a vast departure from what was previously...
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2018 Lexus LS500
The Lexus flagship’s design may not appeal universally, but it’s hard to argue the addition of the F SPORT package’s extra bodywork tweaks impart a more assertive presence that also seems to bring better flow to this...
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2018 LA Auto Show, Nissan Futures Showcase Mobility’s Next Phases
The next decade will likely see an explosion of ‘what-if’ scenarios for personal mobility. It’s also likely that many of today’s visions will materialize in a...
Articles Energy
Europe’s Latest AV Testing Facilities Key for Swift Autonomy Adoption
Trust, safety, security. Those words form a mantra that needs to be in the forefront of the mind of every engineer, researcher and designer responsible for creating...
Articles Unmanned Systems
New Mobility’s Mega-Mappers
A yellow sign on a mountain highway shows an S-shaped curve. This is a primitive map, and hardly a faithful representation of the road. Instead it delivers a simple signal to the driver: Get ready for turns.
News Transportation
Just Say the Words: What3words
If you’re standing in the middle of New York’s Rockefeller Center or on beachside road outside Cape Town, how do you tell a rideshare where to pick you up? Most places on our planet, from fields and...
News Transportation
Delphi Injects Life into Diesel
Delphi Technologies is predicting a period of unprecedented change for the truck and off-highway powertrain markets. However, chief technology officer Mary Gustanski reports that the company is more than...
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FPT Tech Day Reveals Cursor X Concept, Other 4.0 Innovations
FPT Industrial periodically holds Tech Days to demonstrate its latest research and development in a particular technology area. The company’s most recent Tech Day, taking place...
Articles Manufacturing & Prototyping
Metal Additive Manufacturing
Additive manufacturing (AM) – the process of building up solid layers of material to form a finished solid part — is an emerging and exciting technical discipline. Also referred to as “3D printing,” many...
Articles Test & Measurement
Cognitive Radio: The New Architecture of Space Communications
NASA spacecraft typically rely on human-controlled radio systems to communicate with Earth. As collection of space data increases, NASA looks to alternative radio technologies to...
Articles Aerospace
Single Event Effects in High Altitude Aerospace Sensor Applications
There are many advantages to utilizing active electronics versus the passive systems often used in aircraft applications, such as pressure, temperature, and flow sensors. Some...
Articles Manufacturing & Prototyping
Testing Military Vehicle Steering Systems
Military vehicles play a vital role in protecting our society — and inevitably encounter many extreme conditions across their lifespan. From the varying weight, to the rough terrain, there is a lot...
Articles Aerospace
Fiber-Reinforced Thermoplastic Composites
Reinforcing polymers with strong/stiff fibers is nothing new. Such materials have been used pretty much since aircraft were first created. In those pioneering days, wings were reinforced with woven...
Articles Test & Measurement
Applying Augmented Reality Technology to Aerospace Manufacturing
New and powerful projection based augmented reality (AR) technology is transforming the way products — ranging from turbine engines to pacemakers — are made, while...
Articles Software
Lightweighting Parts Using 3D Metal Printing
Metal additive manufacturing (3D printing), also known as Direct Metal Laser Sintering (DMLS) or Powder Bed Fusion (PBF), is changing the way metal parts are designed and produced. New software,...
Articles Aerospace
Does Your Coating System Require Climate Control? What to Look For and What to Expect
There is one aspect of the paint and coatings finishing business virtually guaranteed to give the budget director heart failure: climate control. There's no...
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