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Understanding the Self-Driving Revolution
To understand the self-driving revolution, you must first understand Lindsay Brooke's opinion on the matter. Read on to do just that.
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Reliability, Safety, and AV Development
On March 18, 2018, the first pedestrian fatality due to the operation of an autonomous vehicle occurred in Tempe, Arizona. Since then, almost 10,000 articles have been published on this accident,...
Articles Electronics & Computers
Electronic Architectures Get Smart
The mobility industry is experiencing the biggest disruption in its 125-year history, evolving at a pace that demands flexibility. There is an urgent need to remove all barriers in vehicle design and...
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Cyber Security Goes Upstream
What can hackers do with a car? Just about anything they want. A typical vehicle today is a potential sitting duck, cybersecurity experts say. They point to ghosted schematics of cars showing dozens of...
Articles Software
Software Building Blocks for AV Systems
When the development of ADAS functions or even automated driving up to SAE Level 4 strives for increased functionality, it also increases the complexity of the software environment — and the...
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Are Blockchain and ‘Smart Contracts’ the Secure Future?
Can blockchain, the digital distributed ledger technology so closely associated with the cryptocurrency Bitcoin, be used to mitigate the inherent risks of manufacturing automotive...
Articles Unmanned Systems
Phone Alliance’s Standard Targets Automotive Sensors
Smart phones appear set to expand their burgeoning role in the automotive industry. The MIPI Alliance, which created interface standards for cameras and displays, plans to have a high-speed automotive standard ready by the end of 2019. MIPI’s Automotive Working Group plans to complete the MIPI A-PHY, a physical layer specification that moves data from cameras, radar and lidar at 12-24 gigabits per second (Gbps).
Articles Sensors/Data Acquisition
For Lidar, MEMS the Word
As automakers and their technology partners develop lidar sensors to enable SAE Level 4-5 autonomous driving, some systems designers believe MEMS micromirrors have the potential to reduce overall size and cost — two major hurdles to widespread lidar adoption. Read on to learn more.
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Screen Glare be Gone
A new atmospheric optical bonding process ensures the “smart surfaces” in AV cabins have significantly reduced glare and greater clarity, with improved durability. Read on to learn more.
Articles Software
Rewriting the Code
Renovo’s AWare operating system for Automated Mobility on Demand (AMoD) is expanding its reach as more players see open-platform software as a unifying — and simplifying — answer to quicker and less-costly AV deployment.
Articles Semiconductors & ICs
LiDAR Giant
100 competitors want to eat his lunch, but Velodyne president Mike Jellen aims to maintain leadership in this fast-moving, trillion-dollar technology space.
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Steel Targets EV Structures, Battery Boxes
The steel and aluminum industries are waging a new materials war that could determine which of the long-time competitors dominates EV structures in the next design cycle. Feeling the heat from new...
Articles AR/AI
Meeting Truck Autonomy Hurdles Head-on
Myriad technical challenges and a few non-technical issues face those tasked with creating the systems that let trucks operate without humans to improve efficiency and address the driver shortage. Design teams will have to add vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications and integrate sensors and controllers while keeping an eye on regulatory and insurance hurdles.
Articles Transportation
Plastics Key to Mobility Innovations
The 2017 SPE Innovation Awards highlight the design, engineering and materials-science collaborations between vehicle OEMs and their tier suppliers.
Articles Design
Dana Opens New Chapter on CVTs
VariGlide’s 2020 market entrance underscores not only Dana’s faith in the fundamental Fallbrook technology, but also the fact that the next decade will see many exciting new driveline solutions emerge beyond the battery-electric “revolution” that is taking longer to arrive than some expected.
Articles Transportation
Who Wants Afreecar?
One billion people globally survive on less than $2/day but desperately need personal mobility and electric power. One of the auto industry’s most creative minds offers what could be a unique and sustainable solution.
Editorial Manned Systems
Tesla Semi “Crushes” SuperTruck 2 in Real-World Efficiency
Usually hosted in Southern California, the Advanced Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo moved about 265 miles (425 km) north and east for its latest edition, taking place in Las...
Articles Unmanned Systems
Fusing Sensors for the Automated-Driving Future
The ability to scale is always critical, but will be especially important as technology marches forward. Sensors improve, processors get more powerful, and engineers figure out ways to do more every year. Advances in one area typically beget progress in other fields.
Articles Transportation
SuperTruck REDUX
In fall of 2016, truck makers that participated in the first five-year phase of the SuperTruck program made like the Blues Brothers and “put the band back together” for phase two of the U.S. Department of Energy-sponsored initiative. Read on to learn more.
Articles Transportation
Electrification Not a One-Size-Fits-All Solution
Some electrification efforts in the off-highway in dustry have been quite successful, yet others still need either time to catch on or may just flat-out not be suited for electrification. It is not an across-the-board solution, nor does it necessarily need to be one. Read on to learn more.
Articles Unmanned Systems
New SAE President Focused on Big Data
Well-known in the mobility industry for his expertise in mechatronics and propulsion-system engineering, Mircea Gradu, Ph.D. begins his one-year term as SAE International President amid technology shifts that are rocking the automotive status quo.
Articles Design
A Rebel’s Guide to Chassis Engineering
Herb Adams didn’t invent modern American car handling, though he was present at the creation. Read on to learn more about his trials and tribulations.
Articles Green Design & Manufacturing
LEAF Turns to the 2020s
The 2018 Leaf, now packing 150-mi (241-km) operating range, and with +200-mi (321-km) battery capability coming for 2019, will lead Nissan’s electric march into the new decade. Read on to learn more.
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2024 Lexus GX Ready for Off-Road Adventure with New Platform, E-KDSS
Once Toyota finally updated the Tundra to its third generation in 2022 after 15 years on the last-generation platform, the next model that would logically contend for an overhaul was the Lexus GX. Last given a generational overhaul in 2009, the new GX has been a long time coming. Chief engineer Koji Tsukasaki said the updates are more than just overdue, they’re for overlanding. Read on to learn more.
Q&A Transportation
Alternative Fuels Overshadowed in EV Era
Andrea Strzelec, Ph.D., who recently was hired at USCAR (United States Council for Automotive Research) as senior research scientist, has been an SAE member since 2003 and currently serves as Chair of the Energy & Propulsion Activity (formerly Powertrain, Fuels & Lubricants Activity) for SAE. Read on for a portion of the interview featured in the November issue of SAE’s member publication Update.
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Kodiak Adapts Autonomous Tech for Military Vehicles
Kodiak Robotics launched its first autonomous military prototype vehicle in December 2023 – a Ford F-150 upfitted with the Kodiak Driver autonomous system. Developed for the Department...
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A Consumer’s View: Perry Parts 3D-Printed Bump Stops
I have always loved off-road racing. I love the innovation, grit and determination it takes to get across the finish line after 250, 500 or even 1,000 miles (402, 805 or 1,609 km) of...
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Digital Transformation of the Construction Jobsite
There has been talk in recent years of an oncoming digital transformation coming to the construction jobsite. While there are some components of this transformation that have yet to be realized, in many ways the industry’s digital transformation has already begun. Read on to learn more.
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