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Michelin, GM Partner on Airless Wheel for 2024
Michelin has partnered with General Motors to test the tire company’s “airless” wheel technology, which will it says will improve safety and reduce waste by eliminating the possibility of...
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Mercedes-AMG Extracts World-Record Power from New Four-Cylinder Engine
Mercedes-Benz engineers delight in setting new technology records—because they can then start a new program to break them. At Mercedes-AMG—the out-and-out...
Road Ready Manufacturing & Prototyping
Cadillac Pulls the Wraps off Two New V-Series Sedans
Cadillac has added two more sedans to its V-Series performance lineup, the all-new 2020 CT4-V and CT5-V. The CT4-V will square off against established C-segment players such as the BMW...
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Big Data, Big Benefits for Big Machines
The huge volumes of data created by on-vehicle systems are being mined to bring a range of benefits to vehicle operators and fleet managers. Predictive maintenance is becoming more common while data...
Technical Innovation Sensors/Data Acquisition
Holistic Hydraulic Designs Add More Sensors, Advanced Controls
Hydraulic system developers are moving on many different fronts as they strive to improve performance and efficiency. A full-system approach that includes more sensors and...
Technical Innovation Test & Measurement
JCB Prepared to Meet EU Stage V Emissions
JCB is preparing to offer Stage V compliant engines across its equipment lines, with updates to its own engine range and changes to supplier models. Group director of engines Alan Tolley said that...
Technical Innovation Mechanical & Fluid Systems
SKF Employs Digital Tools to Enhance Bearing Design, Performance
It began with spherical roller bearings more than 100 years ago and now SKF finds itself amid a digital transformation. Over the years the bearing company has expanded beyond...
Technical Innovation Software
DSD Helps ‘Balance the Books’ for Buying Electric Truck Technology
In the discerning world of truck operations, where procurement decisions must be based on total cost of ownership (TCO), the case for moving to environmentally...
News Unmanned Systems
Peloton CEO Talks Level 4 ‘Automated Following’
Daimler Trucks abruptly hit the brakes on its platooning activities, announcing at CES 2019 in January that analysis of its years-long testing on U.S. roads showed no business case for...
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Heavy Capability for Chevy’s 2020 Silverado Heavy-Duty Pickups
That there are a staggering eight different trim levels for the new 2020 Chevrolet Silverado HD lineup says much about the importance the commercial-pickup segment holds for...
Road Ready Manufacturing & Prototyping
2020 Ford Explorer: Knockout Styling Caches All-New Engineering
Already America’s all-time best-selling SUV, the all-new 2020 Ford Explorer is cast on an entirely new global rear-wheel-drive (RWD) architecture and boasts the first Ford...
Technology Report Manned Systems
Magna’s New FreeForm Enables Sculpted, Seamless Seat Surface
Seat comfort and clean cover surfaces are high on the list of interior “wants” for consumers, but seats designed and produced with traditional cut-and-sew surfaces can dull...
Articles AR/AI
Complexity of Autonomous-Systems Simulation, Validation Soars to the Clouds
As the auto industry strives to improve safety and edge towards high-level automated driving, the complexity of proving that electronic vehicle controls will...
Articles Software
Connectivity Solutions for AVs
There is broad agreement that AVs need connectivity for up-to-date high-resolution maps as road conditions and landmarks can change due to construction, for example.
News Connectivity
Autonomous-Vehicle Ridesharing Remains in Uber’s Sightlines
Uber hasn’t set a timeline for deploying autonomous vehicles (AVs) on its worldwide ridesharing network, but plenty has happened since the company began development work in...
Articles Design
German University Installing Advanced Simulator to Study Autonomous-Vehicle Handover
Researchers at Germany’s Kempten University of Applied Sciences plan to embark this year on autonomous vehicle (AV) and advanced driver-assist system...
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5G Cellular-Enabled Test Infrastructure for Autonomous Vehicles Launched at U.K.’s Millbrook
Millbrook Proving Ground in the U.K. has officially launched the AutoAir consortium’s 5G cellular testing infrastructure for autonomous vehicle...
News Unmanned Systems
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...
Articles Transportation
Other Expert Voices
Noted industry experts in Powertrain technologies shared their views on future propulsion trends during SAE’s 2019 WCX panel, “Still Not Dead: The ICE’s Continued Evolution,” moderated by Editor-in-Chief Lindsay Brooke. Read on to see the insights doled out.
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Data Management and Storage for Autonomous-Vehicle Developers
Dell EMC chief technology officer Dr. Florian Baumann, Ph.D, discusses with SAE’s Autonomous Vehicle Engineering the important role of storage systems and data management in the face of growing data volumes and increasing performance requirements.
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The Navigator: As the World Turns to C-V2X, Europe Picks WiFi
Vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications is a relatively straightforward and inexpensive technology that has the potential to reduce crashes by improving driver situational...
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Nexcel Project Turns Christmas Trees, Chewing Gum and Flashlight Batteries into Engine Oil
What is the connection between a Christmas tree, chewing gum, used frying oil and 14 flashlight batteries? Answer: together with some other commonly...
Q&A Power
Engineering Harley’s Electric 2020 LiveWire
Sean Stanley is one of a new generation of motorcycle engineers who are as fluent in battery cooling and electronics integration as their predecessors were in optimizing cam profiles and...
News Sensors/Data Acquisition
The Sensitive Side of Autonomous Vehicles
The sensing technologies needed for automated-driving vehicles are evolving as the industry moves toward a high-level (SAE Level 4-5) self-driving vehicle. Sensing technologies already assist with...
Articles Software
Delivering on Autonomous Transport
“Data is the most efficient propellant.” This expression underpins the founding in 2016 of the Swedish startup Einride. Now, the fledgling tech company is partnering with well-established...
Articles Software
What M&E Can Teach the AV Industry About Data
At first glance, autonomous vehicles would seem to have little in common with the Media and Entertainment (M&E) industry, beyond action-movie car chases and in-vehicle entertainment screens.
News Photonics/Optics
The Rodney Dangerfield of Automated-Driving Sensors?
The emerging era of highly-automated driving comes courtesy of much-vaunted sensor technology—spinning lasers, penetrating radar and sonar blips. But the sensor that gets the least...
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Lange Couplers The construction and port orientation of the Lange Coupler from SemiGen (Londonderry, NH) makes it useful as both a power combiner and splitter for RF and microwave applications. It is a specific type of directional...
Articles Electronics & Computers
Broadband 1.2- and 2.4-mm Gallium Nitride (GaN) Power Amplifier Designs
The US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) has been working with Raytheon to design efficient, broadband, linear, high-power amplifiers and robust, broadband, low-noise...
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