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Transportation

Seeing Through Fog

As the mobility industry advances with ADAS and autonomous vehicle (AV) operation, the safety challenges of applications involving nighttime warning systems, pedestrian detection and driver situational awareness will...

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RF & Microwave Electronics

Virtual Validation on the Rise, but Physical Testing Remains Crucial

The more vehicles do to take control and perform safety-related maneuvers without driver input, the smaller will be their margin for error. Ensuring that all the sensors,...

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Software

America’s Latest AV Testing Site Adds Cloud Provider

The newly operational American Center for Mobility (ACM), designed for all-weather testing of connected and autonomous vehicles, will use Microsoft as its data infrastructure and cloud...

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Test & Measurement

Rolls-Royce Sees a Future in Connected Engines

Richard Goodhead, Senior Vice President Marketing, Civil Aerospace at Rolls-Royce, sees the changes that will result from the company’s IntelligentEngine, launched as a concept in early...

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Electronics & Computers

OA-X Contender Moonlights as AFRL Testbed

Months have passed since the United States Air Force (USAF) finished the first phase of its light attack aircraft experiment. The OA-X assessment, which took place at Holloman Air Force Base (AFB) in...

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Sensors/Data Acquisition

Fusing Sensors for the Automated-Driving Future

The ability to scale is always critical, but will be especially important as technology marches forward. Sensors improve, processors get more powerful, and engineers figure out ways to do more every year. Advances in one area typically beget progress in other fields.

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Unmanned Systems

ADAS: Functional Safety and Freedom from Unacceptable Risk

“When it comes to safety in cars, there are two main considerations: firstly, reducing dependency on driver skill and awareness and secondly, functional safety,” said Tim Mace,...

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Sensors/Data Acquisition

Brake Pad Development Tool

The ITT Smart Pad is a brake pad technology concept from ITT Inc. (Lainate, Italy) that offers an approach to friction designed to empower the entire brake system with real-time data. Sensors embedded in every ITT...

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Sensors/Data Acquisition

Sensor ICs, Semiconductors and Safety

What system-level risks and related safety implications are lurking within the vehicles you’re developing? Electrification, greater overall electronics content and the trend toward autonomous vehicle...

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Connectivity

Mahindra Launches E2o ElectriCity Car in the UK

Mahindra recently made its entry into the UK automotive market with the launch of the e2o electric city car. Designed specifically for easy urban commuting, the Mahindra e2o features several...

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Propulsion

Integration Can Simplify Motor Development Process

Texas Instruments aims to simplify the design process for the growing number of electric motors used in hybrids and in applications like electric power steering. TI recently unveiled a...

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Connectivity

2016 SAE Congress: Fear of the Driverless Car as 2020 Approaches

What will connectivity and mobility be like in the 2020s? Although the start of the decade is less than four years away, an expert panel at the 2016 SAE World Congress cited...

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Product Briefs
Electronics & Computers

Compact High-Shock 6DOF Sensor

The 6DX PRO for gathering kinematic data for research and engineering validation was designed by DTS specifically for occupant dynamics and human injury assessment. DTS claims the 6DX PRO is the smallest,...

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Global Vehicles
Photonics/Optics

A Hundred Innovations for Renault’s Eolab Concept

When Renault prepares a motor show concept, it invariably does so comprehensively. But for Paris this year it has excelled itself, claiming that its ultra-lightweight Eolab environmental...

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Energy

Bosch Adding Engineers, Expanding Tech Center

By doubling the size of its current U.S. technical center, Bosch lays the foundation for adding another 200 specialists to its Michigan workforce.

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Unmanned Systems

Will ‘Recalls’ Become ‘Upgrades’?

"The nice thing about the digital world is that, when you enter it, you don't know where you will end up," said Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) Research and Development Director, Dr. Wolfgang Epple....

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Sensors/Data Acquisition

Denso Senior VP Offers Career Advice to Young Engineers

With nearly 40 years of engineering experience, Doug Patton (SAE member, 1987) recounts career learnings nearly as fast as the minicomputer he used during his college days.

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