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New 300-Mm Wafer Fab Is Key to Bosch’s Chip Future
A new semiconductor plant is the single largest investment made by Robert Bosch AG in the 122-year-old company’s history. The facility, in Dresden, Germany, is welcome news to...
News Mechanical & Fluid Systems
BMW 7-Series Drives Itself Through Own Assembly
The 1997 James Bond film “Tomorrow Never Dies” obliquely presaged current-day automated-driving technology when the hero remotely piloted his modified BMW 7-Series sedan through a...
Road Ready Software
Cadillac Lyriq Spearheads GM’s EV Assault
The 2023 Cadillac Lyriq isn’t the first of GM’s new-age EVs to use the company’s all-encompassing Ultium lithium-ion battery “system” and all-new family of traction motors. That...
Articles Software
Real-Time Processors Key to the Zonal E/E Revolution
OEMs face major challenges with their vehicle architectures as they become more complex and unwieldy. They also want to speed up their innovation cycles while supporting intelligent...
News Sensors/Data Acquisition
Volvo Gets 'Gamey' with Info, Driver-Assist Warnings for Future EVs
As vehicles gain more and more technology such as infotainment, advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) and electrification, there’s a corresponding need for ways...
Articles Robotics, Automation & Control
Sensors Step Out While Startups Stutter
The Michigan Science Center in downtown Detroit was an appropriate venue for the recent 2022 AutoSens conference and exhibition.
Articles Manufacturing & Prototyping
Sensing Enters a New Era
More than 1.3 million people die on the world’s roadways each year and another 50 million are injured. While roadway safety has improved over time, all countries face formidable challenges in reducing the...
News Sensors/Data Acquisition
Using AI and Machine Learning for Vehicle Inspection
At its inception in 2016, UVeye’s deep-learning technology was developed for the security industry to detect weapons and contraband. Applications in the mobility industry followed,...
News Sensors/Data Acquisition
Homing in on STEM Innovation
Constraints are sometimes just new ways to open doors. High school senior Victor Cai (above), an 18-year-old from Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania, learned this lesson working on a short-range, narrow-bandwidth...
Articles Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Expanding ADAS Roles for Radar and Cameras
Cameras and radar have become so widely used in advanced driver assist systems (ADAS) that it’d be easy to label them as commodities. The well-known technologies, in use in the automotive...
News Unmanned Systems
Uhnder and Spartan to Partner on Hi-rez Radar
Two new players on the hardware and software side of advanced high-resolution automotive radars have announced a partnership. Austin, Texas-based Uhnder, which lays claim to the first...
News Automotive
Valeo Debuts New Lidars, EV Tech at CES 2022
The breadth of Valeo’s news announcements during CES 2022 effectively showcased just how much the show has turned into an automotive tech event. From autonomous driving technologies to...
News Sensors/Data Acquisition
New Lidar Tech Illuminates CES 2022
While marquee automakers and suppliers ditched CES 2022 due to a COVID surge, more than a dozen lidar suppliers unveiled their latest products and innovations during the show. Here’s a highlight of...
News Electronics & Computers
Keeping Pace with In-Vehicle Data Speed
Next-generation advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) require camera and radar systems with increasingly high resolution. That means more speed and higher bandwidth for networks, switches and...
Articles Sensors/Data Acquisition
Horiba to Expand Virtual AV Vetting with Physical-Body Testing
Measurement and analysis specialist Horiba has a host of virtual tools available for suppliers and OEMs to aid the development of autonomous vehicle (AV) sensor suites. The...
News Electronics & Computers
Honda Puts Autonomous Vehicles to Work
Honda and Black and Veatch, a global engineering and construction firm, said they recently conducted a month-long field test of a prototype Honda Autonomous Work Vehicle (AWV) at a Black and Veatch...
News Automotive
Nissan Debuts Tech-Laden 2022 Ariya EV SUV
Nissan became an electric-vehicle pioneer when it debuted the Leaf in late 2010, and even with a meager 73 miles (117 km) of range the first-generation 5-door hatchback became the world’s...
News Unmanned Systems
Autonomy’s Computing Edge
Computing clouds get more headlines, but edge computing is likely to play a more crucial minute-by-minute role in the autonomous-vehicle (AV) future. Roughly defined as bringing the processing of data...
News Unmanned Systems
GM Announces Door-To-Door Ultra Cruise ADAS
GM has announced the next generation of its hands-free Super Cruise advanced driver-assist system (ADAS), upping the label to “Ultra Cruise.” GM claims the Ultra Cruise system, expected to...
Articles Imaging
DSpace Launches Simphera AV Development Simulator
The new cloud-based and scalable software is engineered to simulate and validate autonomous driving applications.
News Design
Making UX Easy on the Eyes
Faurecia IRYStec combined physiology and image processing to create uniquely personalized high-fidelity screen displays, as pioneered by Mercedes’ MBUX.
News Manned Systems
Arctic Autonomy
In what is billed as “the most extensive pilot [program] in challenging weather conditions, ever,” a trio of Nordic companies is prepping an autonomous public-transport service in Bodø, a Norwegian city north of the...
News Unmanned Systems
Vehicle Sensors Go Longer Range
Sensors are the frontline technology for advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) and future vehicles with high-level (SAE Levels 4-5) automation. Designers at all levels are working to find the optimal...
News AR/AI
Data Drives Driverless Truck Launch
Transforming raw data into high-quality structured data is a critical path to properly fueling machine-learning (ML) models and deploying artificial-intelligence (AI) applications across autonomous...
News Electronics & Computers
Designing and Assessing Vehicle Safety Functions with a Use Case Approach
The required capabilities of a vehicle’s systems and components will vary depending on the scenarios and use cases in which they are expected to safely operate....
News Software
Lincoln Unveils Tech-Refreshed 2022 Navigator
Lincoln has revealed a refreshed 2022 Navigator that sees no drivetrain or electrification upgrades, but gains a smattering of thoughtful technology, including a hands-free advanced...
News AR/AI
Processing Capability TOPs-Out to Expand Vehicle Automation
Sensors are the vehicle’s eyes and ears, but their inputs must be analyzed, processed and acted upon. A hefty amount of computing power is needed to fuse complex data from...
News Software
Sony Jumps into AV Sensors, Software
The growing prominence of sensor-based driving systems is creating opportunities for electronics companies to enter the auto industry. After years of speculation about Apple launching an electric...
News Manufacturing & Prototyping
Radiated Emissions Testing Gathers Bandwidth
In a non-descript business park in Auburn Hills, Michigan, Bureau Veritas is conducting tests to help prevent electronic havoc. With today’s vehicles chock full of wired and wireless...
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