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GDCA Inc. Partners with Abaco Systems to Help Avoid Embedded End-Of-Life, Support Legacy Systems
Aerospace and defense, industrial automation and robotics, rail transportation, and other organizations which often struggle to support long-life...
News Design
McLaren Applied Technologies’ All-Electric, AI-Infused Vision of Formula 1 Racing
McLaren Applied Technologies of Woking, United Kingdom unveiled their “MCLExtreme” (MCLE) vision for the future of grand prix racing. While McLaren...
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NAIAS 2019: The Tech-Savvy Next-Generation Ford Explorer
The 6th-generation Ford Explorer looks to retain its all-time best-selling-SUV in America status by adding driver assist and other technologies, while dropping its former FWD/AWD...
Technology Report Energy
China’s NIO Making EV Battery Swapping Work
Emergent electric-vehicle automaker NIO believes battery swapping makes sense for EVs and the company’s customers almost universally agree. In front of 10,000 guests at the 2018 NIO Day in...
Articles Robotics, Automation & Control
End Public ‘Shadow’ Driving!
The fundamental premise of shadow driving is that the vehicle has learned the proper management of possible events which may occur during the maneuvers, and the human observer can react fast enough to stop any negative results from occurring.
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StreetDrone: Rolling R&D Vehicle for Small-Scale AV Developers
Even for well-funded automakers, suppliers, start-up businesses and academic institutions, the cost of developing specific technologies needed to support autonomous-vehicle (AV)...
Articles Software
A Lesson in Multiphysics
Modeling and simulation are becoming a more critical factor in automotive design, particularly in subjective areas like passenger-cabin sound quality and complex newer technologies like battery management.
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The Navigator: The Not-So-Hidden Cost of “Free”
There is no such thing as a free lunch, as the old truism goes. For more than a century, the auto industry business model has been to sell it and forget it. Once you drove off the lot in...
News Propulsion
Ford Engineers a Tech Barrage with 2020 Lincoln Aviator
Ford Motor Co. officially launched its 2020 Lincoln Aviator at the 2018 Los Angeles auto show, with the all-new three-row midsized luxury SUV featuring a barrage of equally new and...
Technology Report Manufacturing & Prototyping
Ford Investing $45 Million in New Advanced Manufacturing Center to Speed Production Innovations
Ford Motor Company is investing $45 million in its new Advanced Manufacturing Center (AMC) in Redford Township, Michigan, to help quickly...
News Design
Additive Manufacturing Is Transforming Mobility Engineering, Driving the Factory of the Future
Additive manufacturing continues to advance and transform mobility engineering, as aerospace and automotive firms increasingly adopt and invest in...
Articles Software
Just Say the Words: What3words
If you’re standing in the middle of New York’s Rockefeller Center or on beachside road outside Cape Town, how do you tell a rideshare where to pick you up? Most places on our planet, from fields and...
News Weapons Systems
Is Arm the Future for Airborne Platforms in Aerospace and Defense?
In recent years, Arm processors have made a quiet, understated entry into the aerospace and defense market. With a well-established reputation in commercial markets for...
Q&A Transportation
Packaging Honda’s all-new Insight
Honda’s Noriyuki Sato spoke through a translator with Editor-in-Chief Lindsay Brooke about what he calls “the Smart, Green Sedan” development. Read on to learn his, well, insight.
News Nanotechnology
Gordon Murray Calls New IStream Superlight Chassis Concept a Paradigm Shift
High-profile automotive engineer and designer Prof. Gordon Murray is utterly confident of the potential for his company’s latest iStream Superlight manufacturing...
News Energy
Air- or Water-Cooling Resistors for EVs: The Case for H2O
The choice between water cooling and air cooling for internal-combustion engines was for decades a very real debate in the auto industry, with Volkswagen and Porsche for years...
Technology Report Design
Siemens Software Gets Weekly NASCAR Workout with Hendrick Motorsports
For round 23 of the 2018 NASCAR Cup series championship at Michigan International Speedway (MIS) in August, Siemens invited members of the media to attend the race in...
News Electronics & Computers
Detecting Battery Leaks at Production Speeds
Inficon has launched what it said is an industry-first, robotic-compatible leak-detection system that can use either helium or hydrogen-forming gas to ferret out minuscule cracks in the batteries...
Technology Report Communications
Nexteer Readies Steering Technologies for Autonomous and Mixed-Mode Driving
Steering-technology engineers continue to consider different solutions to the issue of whether a driver will be prepared to instantly take control from an...
News Energy
Atlas Copco Takes Smart-Manufacturing Tools and Systems on Tour
Wireless tools and production systems intertwined to the Industry 4.0 manufacturing revolution are featured in Atlas Copco’s recently-launched traveling roadshow.
Articles Software
Screen Glare be Gone
A new atmospheric optical bonding process ensures the “smart surfaces” in AV cabins have significantly reduced glare and greater clarity, with improved durability. Read on to learn more.
Articles Unmanned Systems
Rewriting the Code
Renovo’s AWare operating system for Automated Mobility on Demand (AMoD) is expanding its reach as more players see open-platform software as a unifying — and simplifying — answer to quicker and less-costly AV deployment.
News Test & Measurement
Autonomous Vehicles Present Passive-Safety Challenges
Reclined and rotated seating positions are commonly depicted for autonomously driven vehicles. But for the Autoliv engineers tasked with developing occupant safety for tomorrow’s...
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What We’re Driving: Bosch EBike Demonstrator
Bosch does not make electric-assist bicycles (ebikes), but is a key supplier in the growing segment. Its electrifying components feature on more than 70 cycling marques, including Bianchi,...
Technology Report Design
OEMs Add Functional Engineering as Digital Tools Evolve
Now that the use of digital models and simulation make it straightforward to create digital twins of any system in the vehicle, the industry is looking to move beyond geometric...
Articles Communications
Daimler-Xilinx Linkup Spotlights Growing Use of FPGAs
The increasingly varied nature of data tied to safety systems and connected cars is altering electronic architectures, putting more emphasis on adaptability during design phases and...
News Design
Off-Road Bus from Torsus Transports to Hard-To-Reach Places
Start-up company Torsus recently launched what it claims is the world’s first purpose-built, heavy-duty off-road bus, the Praetorian, designed to transport personnel and...
Articles Transportation
Engineering at the Crossroads
As the industry pivots to automated/connected vehicles, new research and initiatives are guiding SAE to develop training and education programs to help working engineers and students succeed.
News Test & Measurement
Demand up for Composite-Grade, High-Performance Plastics Across Aerospace, Automotive
Demand for high-performance plastics (HPPs) is up across the aerospace industry, driven by such key trends as growing performance requirements, increased...
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Rewriting the Engineer’s Playbook: What OEMs Must Do to Spin the AI Flywheel
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2026 Toyota RAV4 Review: All Hybrid, All the Time
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A New Approach to Manufacturing Machine Connectivity for the Air Force
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Optimizing Production Processes with the Virtual Twin
