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The Navigator: Mapping the Way to Safe Automated Driving
When it comes to automated driving systems (ADS), Tesla CEO Elon Musk often runs counter to the consensus of almost everyone else in the sector. His disdain for lidar sensing is...
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Aptiv’s Satellite Route to ‘Democratizing’ Autonomous Tech
Despite the myriad challenges the world faced in 2020, it was a "great year of growth” for Aptiv, the technology company formerly known as Delphi Automotive, according to...
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Automotive Cybersecurity Needs Serious Work
According to the BlackBerry 2021 Threat Report, which looks at cybersecurity threats of all types on a global basis, “modern automobiles are effectively insecure networks.” The authors point...
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TCU Testing at the Heart of Vehicle Connectivity
The wireless connectivity between the modern vehicle and the outside world is possible thanks to a constantly evolving component called the telematics control unit (TCU). The TCU is at the...
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Horiba MIRA’s Vision for World-Class AV Testing
It is a bold company that uses the description “globally unique,” but that’s the label engineering research and test provider Horiba MIRA has attached to its new AV development...
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Purpose, Perceptions for Driver-Assist Tech Solidify
A panel of automated-driving experts at this week’s virtual presentation of SAE International’s annual Government/Industry Meeting had strong opinions on the current state of...
Articles Internet of Things
Nano Diamond Battery Provides Universal Applicability
Energy is absorbed in the diamond through a process called inelastic scattering, which is used to generate electricity.
News Mechanical & Fluid Systems
TI’s Wireless Approach to EV Battery Management
The battery pack of a typical electric vehicle (EV) contains a daisy-chain of wiring. Miles of copper cabling interlinked by hundreds of connectors. Even the battery management systems...
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Vehicle Safety Communications Landscape Clarified with Controversial FCC Ruling
After years of transportation-industry tussle over competing technologies to enable communications between vehicles and a “connected” environment, the...
Articles Software
Built-In Google Vehicle Apps Arrive
The modern vehicle cabin experience increasingly is defined by software and interactive screens. The new prominence of digital media interactions is evident in the late 2020 debut of the all-electric...
Technology Report Energy
Dana’s Twin-Clutch Axle Boosts Bronco Sport’s Off-Road Cred
Bandwidth is the Holy Grail of global vehicle development. Its measure of success includes the ability to derive genuinely diverse products and even entire brands from a...
News AR/AI
Sparkling RWD Platform Underpins 2021 Genesis GV80
Genesis went standalone (in the same way most premium brands coexist with their parent company’s volume brands) from Hyundai Motor Group in 2016 and immediately asserted itself as...
Articles Test & Measurement
'Level 2+': Making Automated Driving Profitable, Mainstream
Soon after SAE International released its J3016 “Levels of Automated Driving” standard in January 2014, engineers and product planners working in automated-vehicle development...
News Manned Systems
CES 2021: GM Creates BrightDrop, a New Electrified Delivery and Logistics Company
During her CES 2021 keynote on January 12, GM Chairman and CEO Mary Barra announced the creation of a new logistics company called BrightDrop. The new...
News Connectivity
Time to Unlock the Potential of Digital Design Tools
Despite joint ventures and partnerships, sharing always has been a difficult action across the auto industry, given the organizational silos and inter-partner rivalries often standing in...
News Semiconductors & ICs
Protecting AV Control Circuits
The safety and convenience offered by autonomous vehicles (AVs) cannot be achieved unless the vehicle’s electronic circuits are highly reliable and robust to electrical shocks. Designers can substantially...
News Materials
A Cool New Dimension to Automotive Plastics’ Testing
R&D testing in extreme temperatures has long been part of ensuring required longevity and performance of automotive materials. That is particularly so regarding plastics, the...
Articles Imaging
Smart Tech Revolutionizing the Traffic Light
Every motorist has experienced the frustration of waiting at a red light when there is no traffic in sight. These days, countless household devices use sensors, cameras and connectivity to...
News Photonics/Optics
Illuminating New Roles for Vehicle Lighting
Vehicle lighting used to be about seeing and being seen, but Audi has much larger ambitions for automotive illumination. New LED and digital control technologies are moving the humble headlamp...
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New Initiatives Prep Porsche, GM for Digital-Manufacturing Transformation
The sometimes seemingly mercurial benefits of the Internet of Things (IoT) movement are moving into focus for automotive manufacturing, as automakers large and small...
News Design
Volvo Cars Mixes Virtual with Real-World Testing
Volvo Cars engineers who do a lot of test-track driving are trading their typical street-clothes attire for some serious “tech style.” They’re getting behind the wheel wearing a...
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Bosch Debuts First Motorcycle Split-Screen Display
Bosch has revealed the world’s first dedicated motorcycle split screen display, a 10.25-inch widescreen that will make its debut on the 2021 BMW R 1250 RT sport-touring machine. Bosch...
Original Equipment Energy
Ford Expands EV Lineup with E-Transit Cargo Van
Ford revealed on November 12 its next fully electric vehicle (EV), the 2022 E-Transit cargo van, with the automaker’s new president and CEO Jim Farley stating, “The transition of fleet...
News Manned Systems
Autonomy Takes Off-Highway
Autonomous operation for on-highway commercial vehicles has grabbed headlines and public attention, rightfully so since these haulers increasingly will share the roads with passenger vehicles. But there is a lot...
Articles Sensors/Data Acquisition
Accelerating AV Training Data and Testing
Generating reliable training data to support deep learning for autonomous vehicle (AV) artificial intelligence (AI) via real-world recorded scenarios can be expensive, time inefficient and...
News Electronics & Computers
Creating Safe, Reliable Circuits for Next-Gen EVs
Designing circuits for electrified vehicles is extremely challenging. To ensure robust and safe designs that can withstand overloads, transients, and electrostatic discharge (ESD),...
News Software
Getting to the ‘Core’ of AV Thermal Management
The universal understanding of autonomous vehicle (AV) safety is one of the most critical keys to broad adoption of self-driving technology. For AVs, what is “safe enough?” This...
Articles Green Design & Manufacturing
New Solutions for Sanitizing Autonomous Vehicles
If not for the word “mucosalivary,” the following analysis could have come from a combustion-engine technical paper: “Recent work has demonstrated that exhalations, sneezes, and coughs...
The Navigator Software
OTA and the End of Vehicle Ownership
I write and talk about automated and connected vehicles every day for a living. But my personal ride is a first-generation Mazda Miata built 31 years ago this month. I know that as long as I maintain it...
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