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Ford Promises Full-Autonomous Car in 2021
Get ready for the “pod” car: Ford announced today that it intends to mass-produce a driverless, fully autonomous vehicle for commercial ride-sharing or ride-hailing service in 2021.
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OTA Updating Brings Benefits, Challenges
The race to build up an infrastructure for over-the-air (OTA) updating is heating up as suppliers go all-out to gain a spot in a field that’s expected to see momentous growth. Warranty costs, cyber...
News Test & Measurement
New Virtual Tools Tackle Real-World Emissions Testing
“Real-world” fuel consumption and emissions testing is becoming central to OEM new car/new powertrain programs. But it brings new challenges and potentially financial headaches to a...
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Navy Grant Fuels Effort to Improve Safety of Military Technology
An Indiana University expert in the high-tech field of computer vision will collaborate with U.S. Navy engineers to improve the quality of microelectronic components used in...
INSIDER Motion Control
Researcher Creates System to Control Robots With the Brain
A researcher at Arizona State University has discovered how to control multiple robotic drones using the human brain. A controller wears a skull cap outfitted with 128 electrodes...
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Advances in Vision-Aided Navigation Keep Soldiers on Track
The Army Materiel Command’s Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center, or CERDEC, is using miniature cameras to create vision-aided navigation...
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BMW I3 Battery Replacement Is $16,000
What happens if you buy an electric car and, at some point in your ownership, have to replace the battery?
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First Chevrolet Medium-Duty Truck Rolls off Assembly Line at Spartan Motors
Spartan Motors, along with General Motors and Isuzu Commercial Truck of America executives, celebrated the new Chevrolet medium-duty, gasoline-powered trucks as the...
News Automotive
In Aftertreatment, less Is More
For design teams focused on aftertreatment, reducing package size has become almost as important as removing emissions. Combining catalysts, improving filters and integrating sensors are a few of the...
News Manufacturing & Prototyping
Big-Time 3D Printing: Building an Excavator, Layer by Layer
3D printing a car is impressive enough; building an excavator, layer by layer, is downright unimaginable. Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have not only imagined...
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Boeing and Embraer Take Relationship to Next Level
The hookup between Boeing and Embraer has been played out in public for at least four years, when it was first announced that the two companies would “collaborate on the KC-390 aircraft...
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Testing the Transition to Low-Carbon, Low-Noise, Electric Propulsion
As the industry’s appetite for electric propulsion continues to increase, so too does the need to understand the intricacies of the systems that are needed to make it...
News Electronics & Computers
Engineering Smart Systems for Smart Air Travel, Balancing Human Constraints
There are no shortage of predictions (or, “market outlooks,” as is the phrase) in the aerospace industry. And they are necessary as such predictive data feeds...
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Blaupunkt Renews License Agreement for Infotainment Solutions in India
Car infotainment and audio accessory supplier Blaupunkt has renewed its license agreement for the brand in India. The agreement has been signed between brand holder Global Intellectual Property Development and Blaupunkt India Pvt. Ltd. for a tenure of five years, with an option...
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Mahindra Launches E2o ElectriCity Car in the UK
Mahindra recently made its entry into the UK automotive market with the launch of the e2o electric city car. Designed specifically for easy urban commuting, the Mahindra e2o features several...
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Maiden Flight of First Su-30 MKI with BrahMos Missile Achieved
The first flight of an Su-30 MKI aircraft with a BrahMos missile was successfully achieved at Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) Airport, Nashik in late June.
INSIDER Materials
Dual-Function Aircraft De-Icer Also Prevents Freezing
Rice University scientists have advanced their graphene-based de-icer to serve a dual purpose. The new material still melts ice from wings and wires when conditions get too cold, but if...
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Researchers Crash Drones to Expose Design Flaws
Sales of drones are soaring. But new research by a Johns Hopkins computer security team has raised concerns about how easily hackers could cause these robotic devices to ignore their human...
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NASA Works with Airline to Improve Pilot Training and Cockpit Displays
Through an agreement between NASA and American Airlines, engineers and scientists at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, VA, will work to improve flight training,...
News Sensors/Data Acquisition
Integration Can Simplify Motor Development Process
Texas Instruments aims to simplify the design process for the growing number of electric motors used in hybrids and in applications like electric power steering. TI recently unveiled a...
News Manufacturing & Prototyping
ZF Leverages Indian Operations
ZF has initiated the “Wind of Change” campaign to reinforce its supplier base in the Indian market. In an announcement on ZF India Supplier Day, the company said it aims to reach EUR100 million worth of...
News Electronics & Computers
Bosch's Connectivity Platform Tailored to Indian Market
Bosch has developed a comprehensive connectivity platform that can reduce a vehicle's fuel consumption, foresee when maintenance is needed and display all information on the owner's...
News Energy
OEMs and Tier 1s Prepare for China Uncertainty, Disruptions
As headwinds buffet China's economy, automotive OEMs and Tier 1s are expecting many changes in the near term. At the recent Global Automotive Forum in Chongqing, experts predicted...
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China Shifts Focus to 'New Energy' Vehicles
Chinese planners are focusing on "new energy" vehicles (NEV) that don’t rely primarily on internal combustion engines to become a mainstay of its future automotive production and consumption....
INSIDER Electronics & Computers
Coding and Computers Could Help Detect Explosives
A modern twist on an old technology could soon help detect rogue methane leaks, hidden explosives and much more. A Duke University team is using software to dramatically improve the...
INSIDER Test & Measurement
Engineers Use Cyborg Insects as Biorobotic Sensing Machines
A team of engineers from Washington University in St. Louis is looking to capitalize on the sense of smell in locusts to create new biorobotic sensing systems that could be used in...
INSIDER Materials
Researchers Improve Decontamination Criteria for Combat-Vehicle Coatings
When it comes to protecting warfighters from exposure to chemical agents that have contaminated combat vehicles, determining how much agent gets absorbed into the...
News RF & Microwave Electronics
2017 Chrysler Pacifica Plug-In Is Industry-First
Start of production for the plug-in hybrid Chrysler Pacifica minivan begins in late 2016, marking a milestone as Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA)’s first mass-produced PHEV and the...
INSIDER Software
System Makes Airport Surface Traffic More Efficient
Researchers have developed an optimization system that identifies the optimal timing and taxiing sequences for runway use by a given aircraft. It plans detailed taxiing routes, recommends...
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