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Dining on Data
Every year, NVIDIA hosts its GPU Technology Conference, a multi-day news conference/ expo to highlight the advances the tech company has made in the past 12 months.
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Provizio Eyes Safety with Radar, Not LiDAR
"Safety first” is more than a catchphrase. For sensing company Provizio, it’s the only way the transportation industry should introduce autonomous vehicles. In Provizio’s view, using AV...
Articles AR/AI
Infineon Semiconductor Technology Helps Makes Electrified Vehicles Greener, Smarter and More Secure
Electrified vehicles are growing in popularity exponentially. For this Expert Insight interview, SAE’s Automotive Engineering spoke with Bill Stewart of Infineon on how his company helps automakers meet climate and government pressures.
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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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Pothole Detectives
Vehicles traveling repeated routes are data-gatherers for Aisin’s Road Maintenance Solution (ARMS) technology, ready for beta testing in the U.S.
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Getting EV Battery Gigafactories Up to Speed
The term “gigafactory” has become common lexicon for a manufacturing facility constructed to produce the almost incalculable number of individual battery cells required for the millions of...
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Autonomy’s ‘Pirouetting’ Future
Designing and engineering a 360-degree steering capability for a production electric autonomous road vehicle’s four wheels is no mean achievement. But Protean Electric also combines this pirouetting capability with an in-wheel electric motor, “innovative” suspension and pneumatic ride height control.
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Wired for Autonomy
Engineers and product planners are already grappling with the complexity of autonomous vehicles (AVs), with the prospect of complexity increasing.
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Tier 1s Tout Newest Mobility Tech at CES 2020
At this year’s CES, Automotive Engineering was impressed by new developments in ADAS and AV sensing and processing, V2X connectivity, vehicle cabin sensing and related technologies, electrification advances and a number of vehicle introductions.
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Mercedes-Benz Concept CLA Class Updates VISION EQXX Tech for a 466-Mile EV
Over ten years ago, Volkswagen built a small number of ultra-efficient ICE-powered vehicles called XL1. VW never put these sleek teardrops into mass production, but...
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Meet The 2020 SAE Prez
Todd Zarfos aims to help SAE navigate the disruption occurring across industry sectors.
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Advanced Electrical Architectures Demand New Developmental Strategies
As the need for sophisticated functionality increases, high-performance computers and zone controllers could be the heart of next-generation vehicle electrical platforms.
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Automaker Coalition Plans High-Power Charging Network to Rival Tesla's
In an announcement that could change the balance of power in the still-formative EV charging- station race, seven global automakers said they will work together to...
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The Mind of Argo AI
Argo AI is a leader in SAE Level 4 systems development, partnering with Ford and Volkswagen to put autonomous people-movers and delivery vehicles into revenue-generating road use in the next few years.
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Hitachi-Astemo and the Electrified Future
Tim Clark became Hitachi Astemo’s CEO and president of the Americas in April 2023 after seven years as the company’s head of European operations. During a recent SAE Media interview, Clark...
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Autonomous Testing Calls for Massive Computing Power
As humans, we are quite good at driving, which, curiously, is one of the issues facing the development of autonomous vehicles (AVs). Another is the development of testing equipment that...
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2024 Land Cruiser Returning to Roots
After three years away from the U.S. market with its range-topping SUV, the Land Cruiser, Toyota unveiled the redesigned 2024 Land Cruiser in Salt Lake City on Aug. 1. The model, long known around the...
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NXP Processors Evolve to Enable Software-Defined Vehicles
As efforts to develop software-defined vehicles (SDVs) intensify, the technology that powers vehicles loaded with increasingly sophisticated computing, networks, connectivity,...
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Automated Driving in Italy’s 1,000 Miglia Rally
It’s not every day that you see a $230,000 supercar with its racy looks obscured by bolted- and glued-on sensors and wiring. But this was Italy, where SAE Media was attending simulator...
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Simulation Vs. Organizational Inertia
At VI-grade’s Zero Prototypes Summit in Udine, Italy, 270 of the company’s partners, customers and suppliers shared their successes using the company’s simulators in tire, ADAS and full vehicle...
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Advanced Electrical Architectures Demand New Developmental Strategies
A few days after speaking with Danny Shapiro, vice president, automotive at NVIDIA, a developer of systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) with performances measured in trillions of...
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Kodiak Targets Class 8 Electric Truck for Autonomous System
Kodiak Robotics introduced what it claims is an industry-first at the 2023 Advanced Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo: an autonomous Class 8 truck that is fully electric. Kodiak...
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Making Sense of Next-Gen ADAS Sensing
“I don’t expect [SAE] Level 3-capable vehicles to ship in significant numbers until 2030,” asserted Rudy Burger, of Woodside Capital Partners, during May’s AutoSens 2023 conference in Detroit....
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Volkswagen Plants Autonomous-Testing Flag in Austin
Volkswagen Group of America announced on July 6 that it would launch an autonomous test fleet of ID.Buzz EVs in Austin, Texas. The company said that the three-year program would...
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The Subscriptions Are Coming for Your Wallet
It’s probable that the global market for new vehicles is becoming saturated and is unlikely to grow much past 100 million sales annually. Despite that, automotive remains one of the most...
Articles Energy
Enabling Ambitious Battery Production at Scale
The battery industry is forecasted to grow tenfold by the end of the decade. This growth is driven by increasing demand for Li-ion cell batteries, predominantly for electrified transportation and energy storage.
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Data-Mining the Cabin for UX, Occupant Safety
Mitsubishi Electric is using the data collected by driver-monitoring and various in-cabin sensors to help improve future vehicle safety, SAE Media recently learned at the supplier’s...
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WCX 2023: Making the ‘Smart Cockpit’ and UX Safer
The in-vehicle experience, also known as user experience (UX), is changing as technology evolves. “Everyone talks about AI for autonomy and ADAS, but I think it [artificial...
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The Challenging Legal Environment of AI
“Holy cats. What happens when this stuff goes wrong?”
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