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The Challenging Legal Environment of AI
“Holy cats. What happens when this stuff goes wrong?”
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Real-Time Processors Key to the Zonal E/E Revolution
OEMs face major challenges with their vehicle architectures as they become more complex and unwieldy. They also want to speed up their innovation cycles while supporting intelligent...
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An Holistic Approach to Verifying Cybersecurity in Design
A powerful new generation of test and sim solutions aims to address specific security concerns associated with automotive designs.
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SAE and NREL Partner to Strengthen EV-Charging Cybersecurity
Members of the electric vehicle industry gathered at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in early April to evaluate enhanced cybersecurity for the connections between...
News Energy
SAE WCX 2022: EV Cybersecurity Threats
With war in Europe, a waning pandemic and inflationary and supply pressures rampant, you’d think there was plenty to worry about. Those lucky enough to attend the 2022 SAE WCX panel “Cybersecurity...
News Data Acquisition
Survey Reveals Cyber, Quality Challenges of Vehicle Connectivity
Cybersecurity is viewed as the number one challenge to solve for next-generation vehicles, according to findings from a global survey of automotive industry insiders. The...
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SAE and ISO Publish Joint Automotive Cybersecurity Standard
The new standard that will help ensure that cybersecurity is entwined throughout the entire product lifecycle.
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Amending the Automated-Driving ‘Constitution’
In May, SAE International and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) jointly released a significant update to SAE’s J3016 Recommended Practice: Taxonomy and Definitions...
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ZF Hikes Performance of ProAI Supercompute Platform
Although multinational supplier ZF is widely recognized for conventional components such as its transmissions and braking systems, at April’s Auto Shanghai – one of the few major auto...
News Electronics & Computers
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...
Articles Power
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...
News Connectivity
Training Data-Hungry AI Algorithms
Training the algorithms of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based systems for autonomous or highly automated driving requires enormous volumes of data to be captured and processed. The algorithms must be able...
Articles Manned Systems
Autonomy Is Coming to Commercial Vehicles
Despite a pandemic that continues to punish global economic markets, not to mention vehicle manufacturers’ and suppliers’ product plans, many heavy-duty truck makers are not relaxing on efforts...
Articles Energy
Static Testing of EV Components
The market for electric vehicles (EVs) continues to grow. To offset the immense weight of their batteries, a heightened focus has been put on lightweighting, which has brought many new materials and...
Articles Automotive
The Case for FOTA in AV Data Security
Cars are increasingly becoming mobile living spaces. That’s why the subject of security is so important for OEMs and suppliers. When a car becomes a personal mobile device that the owner uses for...
News Connectivity
V2X Communication, Not Automation, to Usher in Next Road-Safety Revolution
Development of autonomous vehicles (AV) is moving inexorably forward, driven by staggering industry investment. It’s understood that connectivity, often...
News Connectivity
StreetDrone Proposes Top 10 Safety Rules for AV Developers
OE vehicle safety systems must remain connected, in hard engineering terms and intellectually, during autonomous vehicle (AV) development, stresses Mike Potts, CEO of StreetDrone,...
News Connectivity
Cellular-Key Solution Augments Commercial-Vehicle Security
Connectivity’s many benefits are matched by security concerns, which has prompted a number of security specialists from many fields to focus their attention on commercial...
News Connectivity
A Legal Profile of Facial Recognition
Whether it’s using your face to confirm payment over your smartphone, monitoring your child at day-camp, or being confirmed as a ticketholder going to a concert, the possibilities for facial...
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Israel’s Thriving Mobility-Tech Sector Has Created an Innovation Nation
“We’re gonna need partnerships, big and small, particularly with start-ups,” Ford Motor Co. chairman Bill Ford (above) announced at his company’s...
News Connectivity
Autonomy in Your Face
Research into potential automotive applications for biometrics ─ facial and retina scans or fingerprints ─ is increasing, despite rising concerns about privacy and data security, and outcries from civil liberties...
News RF & Microwave Electronics
Virtual Factories Accelerate Collaboration, Advance Technologies
The Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing (CCAM), a non-profit consortium based in Prince George County, Virginia, uses a 3D visualization lab to expand beyond the...
News Sensors/Data Acquisition
Dolphin Technologies Introduces Cryptocurrency Aimed at Reducing Mobile Phone-Related Accidents
Austrian telematics company, Dolphin Technologies GmbH, has created a new cryptocurrency that could lead to less mobile phone-related traffic...
News Unmanned Systems
NVIDIA's Next-Generation Autonomous Driving Platforms Use Macronix Secure Flash Memory
NVIDIA Corporation is using Macronix International Co., Ltd.’s ArmorFlash memory on its NVIDIA DRIVE DRIVE AGX Xavier and DRIVE AGX Pegasus platforms....
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MOBI Rolls out the First Blockchain-Enabled Vehicle Identity (VID) Mobility Standard
The Mobility Open Blockchain Initiative (MOBI) – a global nonprofit working to create standards in blockchain, distributed ledgers, and related...
News Unmanned Systems
Addressing Configuration Controls in an Era of Multiple Security Frameworks
We have entered the era of multiple security frameworks. Sometimes mandatory, often voluntary, security frameworks are created to provide federal and commercial...
News RF & Microwave Electronics
Argus Makes Fleet Protection Cybersecurity Available to Both Automotive and Aircraft Fleets
Vehicle connectivity is beginning to unlock a range of benefits – from airline and rideshare fleet management and predictive maintenance to safety...
Articles Software
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...
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.
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