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Volkswagen ID.Buzz All-electric Vans Combine Iconic Styling With Modern Technology
After a more than two-decade wait from when the concept was first unveiled at the 2001 Detroit Auto Show, Volkswagen finally revealed the production version...
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Budget Airline Car Concept Is the Short-flight Alternative
Short-haul airline flights can be a great convenience for travelers, but they produce more CO2 emissions – about 250 g/km per person – than any other form of passenger...
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Single-chip digital imaging radar heads for 2022 production
The Jeep Grand Cherokee fitted with new single-chip digital imaging radar technology is cruising a residential street in metro Detroit in February. Recent heavy snowfall has wiped...
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Uhnder and Spartan to Partner on Hi-rez Radar
Two new players on the hardware and software side of advanced high-resolution automotive radars have announced a partnership. Austin, Texas-based Uhnder, which lays claim to the first digital...
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GM and Qualcomm Partner on Next-gen ADAS
Ultra Cruise, General Motors’s next generation of hands-free ‘Super Cruise’ ADAS technology, will be powered by a scalable compute architecture featuring a system-on-chip (SoC) design...
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Keeping Pace with In-Vehicle Data Speed
Next-generation advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) require camera and radar systems with increasingly high resolution. That means more speed and higher bandwidth for networks, switches and the...
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Hitachi Astemo Announces Collaboration with Lidar-Alternative Developer TriEye
Tier 1 supplier Hitachi Astemo has announced a collaboration with TriEye, the Tel Aviv-based developer of a short-wave infrared (SWIR), spectrum-enhanced...
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Imaging Radar Is the Next Big Thing
Radar is nothing new to the automotive industry. Vehicles have been equipped with radar for adaptive cruise control since the 1990s and many current models have as many as five radar sensors. While radar...
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Expanding ADAS Roles for Radar and Cameras
Cameras and radar have become so widely used in advanced driver assist systems (ADAS) that it’d be easy to label them as commodities. The well-known technologies, in use in the automotive space...
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ZF Debuts New Modular Inverter, ADAS Supply Deal at CES
ZF's long history of working with automakers now extends to Vietnam. ZF and VinFast Automotive, the automotive arm of the VinFast Global conglomerate, announced at CES 2022 that it...
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Panasonic Augments Driver Safety with New HUD Tech
At CES 2022 Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America unveiled AR HUD 2.0 (Augmented Reality Head-Up Display 2.0), the first system to include a new, patented eye-tracking system...
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New Lidar Tech Illuminates CES 2022
While marquee automakers and suppliers ditched CES 2022 due to a COVID surge, more than a dozen lidar suppliers unveiled their latest products and innovations during the show. Here’s a highlight of...
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Valeo Debuts New Lidars, EV Tech at CES 2022
The breadth of Valeo’s news announcements during CES 2022 effectively showcased just how much the show has turned into an automotive tech event. From autonomous driving technologies to...
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GM CEO Barra Promises $30K EV SUV by Fall 2023; Automated Driving by Mid-Decade
In a January 5 keynote presentation at CES 2022, General Motors CEO Mary Barra did more than unveil an electric version of one of the company’s profit...
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Hyundai Enters the Metaverse Via Its PnD Technology
When Facebook announced last October that it was changing its name to Meta, most wondered whether people would want to spend as much time in a virtual world as they do on the platforms...
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The Future of Automated Vehicle Cabins
Although there are yet no privately owned, fully automated vehicles on the road, automakers and suppliers are working to develop vehicle interior technologies, materials and designs they think will...
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Prepping Cities for Vehicle Autonomy
While automated vehicles (AVs) use existing streets, highways, traffic lights and signage for guidance, they interact with roadway infrastructure much differently than human drivers. Because AVs are...
Articles Unmanned Systems
Horiba to Expand Virtual AV Vetting with Physical-Body Testing
Measurement and analysis specialist Horiba has a host of virtual tools available for suppliers and OEMs to aid the development of autonomous vehicle (AV) sensor suites. The...
Articles Automotive
Advanced Mobility, Rideshare Pilot Programs Expand
Transportation-sector entities and cities and towns around the globe are continuing to define the role of ridesharing – while vehicle automation, the efficiency- and resource-maximizing...
Supplier Eye Unmanned Systems
Suppliers Battle a New Set of ILLs
Slammed by ‘black swan’ events, the global auto supply base now faces a severe cost crunch.
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Honda Puts Autonomous Vehicles to Work
Honda and Black and Veatch, a global engineering and construction firm, said they recently conducted a month-long field test of a prototype Honda Autonomous Work Vehicle (AWV) at a Black and Veatch...
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Driving DAQ Product Development with the Customer’s Voice
Dewesoft is engineering its data acquisition tools for the new rigors of vehicle electrification and autonomy.
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DSpace Launches Simphera AV Development Simulator
The new cloud-based and scalable software is engineered to simulate and validate autonomous driving applications.
Articles Unmanned Systems
GM Announces Door-To-Door Ultra Cruise ADAS
GM has announced the next generation of its hands-free Super Cruise advanced driver-assist system (ADAS), upping the label to “Ultra Cruise.” GM claims the Ultra Cruise system, expected to...
Articles Manufacturing & Prototyping
Opsys Tech Demos Cost-Effective Solid-State Lidar-Module Prototypes
Few argue that autonomous vehicles (AVs) will need lidar to safely reach higher levels of automation. Radar is well-understood, low-cost and low-power, but lacks the...
Articles Connectivity
Autonomy’s Computing Edge
Computing clouds get more headlines, but edge computing is likely to play a more crucial minute-by-minute role in the autonomous-vehicle (AV) future. Roughly defined as bringing the processing of data physically...
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VW’s Newest Battery Pack Facility Is Production-Line Adjacent
The Volkswagen ID.4 electric vehicle (EV) is set begin localized production in the United States in early 2022. The MEB-platform, 2-row SUV will share an assembly line with...
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Arctic Autonomy
In what is billed as “the most extensive pilot [program] in challenging weather conditions, ever,” a trio of Nordic companies is prepping an autonomous public-transport service in Bodø, a Norwegian city north of the...
Road Ready Energy
Seeking More Traction in Budding EV Market, VW Adds AWD to ID.4
A second motor and free charging create a compelling offering as Volkswagen debuts the most-affordable, all-electric, all-wheel-drive SUV.
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