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The ‘Framework’ for AV Development
Over the last 100 years, the transportation industry has been developed primarily around human operators. For example, roadway signs were designed to be easily seen, read and interpreted by humans....
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The Chaos of Automotive Data Privacy
Surveillance of vehicles and the people in them has been happening virtually since the time there was more than a handful of automobiles on the road. But in today’s vehicles that are increasingly...
Articles Software
AV Simulation Testing Faces a Long and Winding Road
Right now, millions of virtual vehicles are driving millions of virtual miles. Their long-term digital mission is to make high-level vehicle automation a reality. Settling on the best...
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Leveraging Electronics Digital Twins on AWS to Accelerate Software-Defined Vehicle Validation
Digital twin platforms enable industries to dramatically reduce costs and deliver products faster. Software-defined vehicles are one such...
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Software Solutions for Battery Management System Applications With AUTOSAR
As demand for electric vehicles continues to increase, so does the demand for improved performance, faster charging time, increased range, and longer battery...
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Detroit Three Focus on Customer-Friendly Tech at 2023 NAIAS
Only a first-time North American International Auto Show attendee would think this year’s exhibition in Detroit was a full-fledged affair. Despite the relative emptiness of...
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Getting EV Battery Gigafactories Up to Speed
The term “gigafactory” has become common lexicon for a manufacturing facility constructed to produce the almost incalculable number of individual battery cells required for the millions of...
News AR/AI
Mercedes-Benz Concept CLA Class Updates VISION EQXX Tech for a 466-Mile EV
Over ten years ago, Volkswagen built a small number of ultra-efficient ICE-powered vehicles called XL1. VW never put these sleek teardrops into mass production,...
Articles Energy
Advanced Electrical Architectures Demand New Developmental Strategies
As the need for sophisticated functionality increases, high-performance computers and zone controllers could be the heart of next-generation vehicle electrical platforms.
News Manufacturing & Prototyping
Tenneco Opens Engineering, Simulation Center in Poland
Suspension- and powertrain-components specialist Tenneco recently opened a new 9,600 sq.m (103,334-sq.ft.) European engineering center at Gliwice in Poland to serve its European...
News Power
Hitachi-Astemo and the Electrified Future
Tim Clark became Hitachi Astemo’s CEO and president of the Americas in April 2023 after seven years as the company’s head of European operations. During a recent SAE Media interview, Clark...
News Connectivity
Defining the Software of ‘Software-Defined’ Vehicles
The phrase “software-defined vehicle” has embedded in the vehicle-development lexicon as the catchall for a new era of digitally driven products. But there is persistent...
News Connectivity
NXP Processors Evolve to Enable Software-Defined Vehicles
As efforts to develop software-defined vehicles (SDVs) intensify, the technology that powers vehicles loaded with increasingly sophisticated computing, networks, connectivity,...
Articles Automotive
A Formula for Real-World Experience
On a hazy, cool day in late May, a massive throng of thousands of collegiate engineers and hundreds of volunteers descended on Michigan International Speedway to put the teams’ engineering,...
News Data Acquisition
Software’s Hard Challenges
Automated driving, electrification, cloud computing and the push toward software-defined vehicles are forcing automotive and commercial-vehicle developers to revamp design strategies. Tools suppliers are...
News AR/AI
Advanced Electrical Architectures Demand New Developmental Strategies
A few days after speaking with Danny Shapiro, vice president, automotive at NVIDIA, a developer of systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) with performances measured in trillions of...
News Design
Study: Information Desert Leaves Many Suppliers in EV Dust Bowl
Inadequate information about domestic and Japanese automakers’ product timelines and strategic plans relating to the transition from ICE-powered vehicles to EVs has...
News Mechanical & Fluid Systems
3D, No Waiting!
Few will dispute that additive manufacturing — commonly called 3D printing — has endured a development path of fits and starts. But as niche applications, an ever-increasing array of material choices — and the...
News Manned Systems
Reducing the Battery Materials Supply Risk
Battery electric vehicle (BEV) adoption is taking off for a variety of reasons. Battery cost per kWh of energy stored has dropped 10-fold since 2010. Driving range has increased, making range...
Articles Software
Software-defined... Headache?
The “software-defined vehicle” is the auto industry’s latest fascination. Probably with due cause, as engineers and other experts and analysts understand that the vehicle-electrification transformation rests on the back of software.
Articles Sensors/Data Acquisition
Testing ADAS Functions in Parallel with EMS Measurement
Many advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) use radar sensors for functions such adaptive cruise control (ACC) or autonomous emergency braking (AEB). These sensors are...
Articles Power
Automated Driving in Italy’s 1,000 Miglia Rally
It’s not every day that you see a $230,000 supercar with its racy looks obscured by bolted- and glued-on sensors and wiring. But this was Italy, where SAE Media was attending simulator...
Articles Design
Simulation Vs. Organizational Inertia
At VI-grade’s Zero Prototypes Summit in Udine, Italy, 270 of the company’s partners, customers and suppliers shared their successes using the company’s simulators in tire, ADAS and full...
News Software
The Subscriptions Are Coming for Your Wallet
It’s probable that the global market for new vehicles is becoming saturated and is unlikely to grow much past 100 million sales annually. Despite that, automotive remains one of the most...
News Photonics/Optics
Making Sense of Next-Gen ADAS Sensing
“I don’t expect [SAE] Level 3-capable vehicles to ship in significant numbers until 2030,” asserted Rudy Burger, of Woodside Capital Partners, during May’s AutoSens 2023 conference in...
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Key Design Considerations for Automated Production of EV Batteries
Examining an EV battery degassing automated cell that is widely installed across the industry exemplifies many design features.
Technology Report Software
The Challenging Legal Environment of AI
“Holy cats. What happens when this stuff goes wrong?”
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Data Analysis Companies Collaborate to Slash EV Battery Production Time
A battery intelligence pioneer will work with a venerable semiconductor yield-improvement firm in a partnership that promises to drastically accelerate the...
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