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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...
SAE Standards News Connectivity
SAE and ISO Publish Joint Automotive Cybersecurity Standard
The new standard that will help ensure that cybersecurity is entwined throughout the entire product lifecycle.
News Energy
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...
News Software
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...
News Connectivity
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...
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...
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...
News Connectivity
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...
Technical Innovation 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...
Articles Imaging
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...
Articles Software
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...
News Robotics, Automation & Control
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 Connectivity
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...
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....
News RF & Microwave Electronics
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 Manufacturing & Prototyping
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...
Articles Test & Measurement
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...
Articles Manufacturing & Prototyping
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...
News Unmanned Systems
Wind River and Airbiquity Partner to Update Autonomous and Connected Vehicle Software Through Cloud-Based, Over-The-Air Technology
Wind River Systems, Inc. is partnering with Airbiquity, Inc. to develop a solution to proactively manage the...
News Software
Law Enforcement Agencies Used DroneSense’s UAS-Management Platform to Support Indy 500 Security Operations
During the 2019 Indianapolis 500 IndyCar race, unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) pilots from the Speedway Police Department,...
News Connectivity
Debating Data Monetization Vs. Privacy
The value of data generated by drivers and passengers in vehicles on the road has been apparent to those companies who see ways to monetize it. But is the public always willing to give up its...
News Sensors/Data Acquisition
Europe’s Blockchain-Based Smart E-Mobility Challenge Will Conclude This May in Germany
To advance development of Internet of things (IoT) mobility solutions like cryptography, distributed ledger technology (DLT) – also known as...
News Connectivity
BlackBerry’s CTO Points to a Holistic and Standards-Based Future for Vehicle Cybersecurity
The days of automobiles as physical transportation devices is quickly shifting into an era of vehicles as rolling digital hubs. With multiple...
News Unmanned Systems
5G Cellular May Be Transformational for Automakers, Suppliers
Connected vehicles are going mainstream, autonomous vehicles are poised to emerge—and cellular communications appears to be a central infrastructural base for both. The...
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