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Startup Neumo Says It Can Detect Impaired Drivers by Scanning Brain Waves
Neumo claims its new application of decades-old technology can help detect impaired drivers by monitoring brain waves.
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Microvision Aquires Luminar, Plans Relationship Restoration, Multi-industry Push
Microvision has completed its acquisition of Luminar, once a shining star of the lidar sector that entered its Chapter 11 bankruptcy in December.
Podcasts Unmanned Systems
SAE Automotive Podcast: Autonomous Driving Technology
Bringing and keeping robotaxis on the road requires a village.
Briefs Energy
Built-In Smart Sensors Can Prevent Lithium-Ion Battery Fires Before They Start
New smart sensors can help detect dangerous internal failures in lithium-ion batteries before they escalate into fires or explosions, say researchers from the University of Surrey. Read on to learn more.
On-Demand Webinars Sensors/Data Acquisition
Latest Sensor Fusion Technology for Autonomous Vehicles
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) require the right combination of sensors to function at peak performance. However, it varies from vehicle to vehicle exactly which perception sensors —like...
Technology Report Sensors/Data Acquisition
ZF’s Smart Chassis Sensors Debut in Cadillac Celestiq
The Cadillac Celestiq is full of new technologies, from the 130+ parts made using additive manufacturing to the 655hp (488 kW) dual-motor AWD powertrain. ZF announced in early July...
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MOIA’s L4 ID. Buzz AVs Starting Service Next Year
Mobileye announced in June that its ongoing work with Volkswagen will deliver the automaker’s first production SAE Level 4 autonomous vehicles sometime in 2026. The first of these...
Articles Software
Making Connections: New V2X Tech Brings in Smartphones, Next-Gen ECall
To point at just one example of the continued evolution of V2X technologies, let’s take a quick visit to Japan and the 2025 JSAE Annual Spring Congress this May....
Articles Power
All (Robot) Hands on Deck
For more than 100 years, BMW has been manufacturing vehicles in the heart of downtown Munich at a three-story plant that currently produces 1,000 cars a day. At the same time, the plant is in a state of being both...
News Sensors/Data Acquisition
WCX 2025: Nira Dynamics’ Sensor-Free Tire Pressure Tech Eyes New Opportunities
Putting a tariff on physical components gives software alternatives a potential boost. Read on to learn more.
Articles Energy
Thermal Management Lies at the Heart of EV Innovation
Along with rapid innovation in cooling methods, a major trend in EV thermal management is the use of technology to better design more thermally efficient vehicle architectures. AI and digital technologies have been major boons to the engineering toolkit for better design, helping to radically speed up system testing and development. Read on to learn more.
Technology Report Unmanned Systems
Power over Coaxial in Automotive: A Simplified Path to Advanced Vehicle Systems
As automotive technology advances, modern vehicles increasingly rely on complex electronics such as cameras, sensors, radar, and lidar. These components are...
Q&A Manufacturing & Prototyping
Mercedes CEO Talks SDVs and 30 Years in Silicon Valley
Nestled in a commercial park in Sunnyvale, California, sits the Mercedes-Benz research and development North America Office. A spinning star sits in the front of the building. It is...
News Data Acquisition
Integrating Sensor Data: Selecting an ADAS Decision-Making Process
Governments have been studying Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) since at least the late 1980s. Europe’s Generic Intelligent Driver Support initiative ran from...
News Unmanned Systems
Qualcomm Expands Line of SOCs
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. president and CEO Cristiano Amon is not humble. While announcing updates to the Snapdragon Cockpit Elite and Snapdragon Ride Elite platforms during the 2024 Snapdragon Summier in...
News Energy
2025 Volvo EX90 Review: Update Required
Contrary to what you may have heard, Americans are buying more EVs than ever. But they tend to like ‘em big. After production delays due to software development issues – a problem that continues...
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Sensitive Subjects
You’ve got regulations, cost and personal preferences all getting in the way of the next generation of automated vehicles. Oh, and those pesky legal issues about who’s at fault should something happen. Under all...
Products Sensors/Data Acquisition
New Products
See the new products, including Asahi Kasei Microdevices Corporation's CZ39 series of coreless current sensors, Bourns, Inc.'s latest miniature resettable thermal cutoff device series, Orion S.A.'s range of high-performance conductive additives that improve Li-ion battery performance, and Littelfuse, Inc.'s newest member of its eFuse Protection IC lineup, the LS0502SCD33S.
Articles Sensors/Data Acquisition
The Impact of Fast Charging on the EV Charging Chain
With fast charging becoming more common, precise and reliable temperature sensing across the charging chain will remain critical even as battery technologies evolve. Read on to learn why.
News Software
AutoSens: Nodar’s Plan to Make Park Assist Tech Better, Cheaper, Cleaner
Park assist technology seems like low-hanging fruit in the assisted and automated driving space, but anyone who’s attempted to use one of these systems might have...
News Sensors/Data Acquisition
MEMS Drive Wants to Shake up Automotive Sensor
Advanced optical image stabilization (OIS) technology used in mobile phones should have a home in the automotive world. Specifically, using microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) to move an...
News Sensors/Data Acquisition
Mapping out Future Vehicle Cockpits
Game-like navigation visuals. Conversational-style voice commands. Contactless biometric sensing. A tidal wave of software code and sensing technologies are being prepped to alter in-vehicle activities.
Technology Report Software
Volvo EX90 Uses AI, NVIDIA SoC to Make Automated Driving Safer
As head of software engineering at Volvo Cars, Alwin Bakkenes is involved not just with all of the software and electronics in Volvo’s vehicles but also the automaker’s...
News Software
Full Speed Ahead for Second-Generation Indy Autonomous Racers
After three years and more than 7,000 miles (11,265 km) of racing, the Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC) enters year four with an updated platform and embedded software upgrades....
Q&A Electronics & Computers
Q&A: Owl AI Making Better ADAS Systems with Help from Drones
Owl AI has steadily been improving the SWaP-C (Size, Weight, Power and Cost) of the electronics in its thermal camera sensors while also improving capability. The company’s...
Articles Software
Sensor Fusion Expanding in Step with Advancing Vehicle Sophistication
When drivers of passenger vehicles change lanes, brake at stop lights, or accelerate on the highway, they’re probably not thinking about sensors. Sensors monitor,...
Articles Software
Tuning-Up AI’s ‘Understanding’ to Make Safer ADAS, AVs
In December 2023, Kognic, the Gothenburg, Sweden-based developer of a software platform to analyze and optimize the massively complex datasets behind ADAS and automated-driving...
Technology Report Power
Honda Motocompacto Folding Scooter Is an Accessory with Pep
As strange as the new Honda Motocompacto looks, it’s not the automaker’s first folding scooter. The Motocompacto is an updated, all-electric version of the Motocompo scooter...
Editorial Energy
Change? Sure, Sometimes.
SAE’s Automotive Engineering magazine is not immune to the constant beat of changes happening across the automotive industry. In case you’re curious what that means, the byline and picture accompanying this...
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2026 Battery & Electrification Summit (Online)
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Cooling a New Generation of Aerospace and Defense Embedded Computing...
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Quiet, Please: NVH Improvement Opportunities in the Early Design Cycle