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CO2 Buildup in Vehicle Cabins Becoming a Safety Issue
High carbon dioxide concentration in a small area, such as a passenger car cabin, is a health hazard. For many years the outside air flap door on most HVAC systems was notched, so that...
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Tackling NVH One DB per Day
The vehicle chief engineer did not like what he was hearing on this recent evaluation ride.
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Are You Innovating for NVH?
I’ll never forget the experience, as a kid, of lifting the massive steel hood of my father’s 1971 Dodge Monaco and seeing nothing but V8 engine and a few rubber hoses. The vast compartment was so uncluttered, I...
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VW Adds Gesture Control to New Golf
Volkswagen is becoming a company of gestures. In the Virtual Engineering Laboratory (VEL) at its Wolfsburg headquarters, designers use gesture control to modify concepts via augmented reality. Now it can...
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VW I.D. CROZZ Makes World Debut at Auto Shanghai 2017
Possibly one of the most significant things to so far come out of Auto Shanghai 2017 was courtesy of Volkswagen with the introduction of the I.D. CROZZ concept—the company’s first...
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Processing Unit with Eight Processor Cores
dSPACE (Wixom, MI) offers an additional Processing Unit for SCALEXIO hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) test systems. Equipped with an octa-core Intel Xeon Processor E5, the new Processing Unit is suitable...
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WCX17: FCA Reveals ‘Hole-Istic” New Lightweighting Approach
Engineers at FCA revealed at the SAE WCX17 conference in Detroit a new simulation and analysis design tool that can earmark nearly any suitable component for a strategic...
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Chilly Prospects for Low Temperature Combustion
Low-temperature combustion (LTC) remains an area of high interest with extensive research, even though many challenges must still be overcome before LTC sees commercial acceptance. Though...
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New Autonomous-Driving Module Uses Raw Sensor Data to Enhance Speed
The race to gain a foothold in the emerging autonomous vehicle market continues to attract more players. Mentor Graphics Embedded Systems Division is joining the game,...
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Dual-Core Lockstep Processors
Synopsys, Inc.’s (Mountain View, CA) DesignWare ARC EM Safety Island IP dual-core lockstep processors simplify development of safety-critical applications and accelerate ISO 26262 certification of automotive...
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Model-Based Development Tool
UniPhi from SimuQuest, Inc. (Ann Arbor, MI) is an intelligent power tool that frees up time for innovation by automating error-prone manual tasks in the design and development of vehicle control systems and...
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Vibration and Acceleration Simulation
Mentor Graphics Corp.’s (Wilsonville, OR) Xpedition vibration and acceleration simulation product for printed circuit board (PCB) systems reliability and failure prediction addresses the challenges of...
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Simulation Consultants
Noumenon Multiphysics (Pune, India) simulation consultants use an advanced understanding of physics and mathematics to build new simulation platforms or help customers optimally use simulation platforms. They collaborate...
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Euro NCAP to Adopt Autonomous Vehicle Ratings
Euro NCAP will establish a separate category for autonomous vehicles, but there is not likely to be one for cars that are claimed to protect all occupants from serious injury or death. And while...
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Lucid Motors’ David Moseley: EV or ICE, “It Is All Physics”
As Director, Powertrain, CAE Crash & Safety for electric-vehicle startup Lucid Motors, David Moseley may hold one of the most intriguing—and possibly even...
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Can Product Planning Keep Pace with Technology?
Product planners: How accurate is your technology ‘radar?’
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Visteon Tests Augmented Reality HUD for Level 4 Autonomy
Augmented reality (AR) head-up displays are emerging as critical equipment for SAE Level 4 autonomous driving, where the operator must completely trust that the vehicle's ADAS sensors...
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Attacking the Cybersecurity Threat
SAE Standards News aims to update readers on the extensive activity in the SAE Global Ground Vehicle Standards development arena, by more than 800 ground vehicle committees comprised of volunteers from global...
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Simulation Squeezes More Range out of Formula-E Racers
"Range anxiety" is not just affecting electric vehicle drivers on the road—it is also a significant hurdle for Formula E teams on the track. Highly accurate energy consumption...
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CES 2017: Car as Close Companion
Let’s face it. For you (and everybody else), it’s all about you, you—and by the way, you. You know, me, the big "I."
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Waymo’s End Game: Beat Conti, Delphi and Valeo in Self-Driving Tech?
What does Waymo, formerly Google’s self-driving car project and now a standalone company, want to be when it grows up?
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Combating Motion Sickness in Autonomous-Driving Simulators
Motion sickness has become a very real issue for engineers developing and testing autonomous vehicle technologies. Automotive simulators can reach such high levels of realism that...
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Fully Embedded CFD
Mentor Graphics Corp. (Wilsonville, OR) offers the only fully embedded computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solution for Solid Edge software, a mainstream computer-aided design (CAD) solution developed by Siemens’ product...
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CAD Viewer Module
CoreTechnologie (Moembris, Germany) offers a new module that enables easy creation of animated explosion views for assemblies of all major CAD formats for its conversion software and the CAD viewer 3D_Analyzer. Illustrated as...
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New EEAs for the Connected, Autonomous Future
The connected, electrified and eventually driverless vehicle revolution has a less publicized but equally important back story — the development of next-generation electrical and electronic...
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HMI Development: More Features, less System Complexity
Human machine interfaces are changing rapidly as radio head units handle more functions and connect to diverse systems inside and outside the vehicle. HMI systems are being...
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Lucid Motors Unveils Air Electric Luxury Car
Lucid Motors, the latest electric-vehicle startup to tilt at Tesla, unveiled the production version of its first model, the Air luxury sedan that boasts a twin-motor driveline and high-density...
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Application Lifecycle Management Module
As part of Arena Solutions’ (Foster City, CA) 2016 Fall Release, Arena Verify adds requirements and defect management to the company’s product offering. These capabilities result in what the company...
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System Simulation Software
SimulationX (3.8) from ESI Group (Farmington Hills, MI) is the latest version of the software platform for dynamic multiphysics system simulation, customizable to the specific needs of diverse industries. The...
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