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Next-Gen Electronic Controls: Open Source, Scalable and Integrated
All trends point to rapidly increasing levels of vehicle electronics. That’s forcing engineering managers to explore ways to consolidate hardware and improve software...
News Electronics & Computers
Intel's "Bumper-To-Bumper" Vehicle Security Approach
As vehicle connectivity becomes ubiquitous, the threat of being hacked rises. The longer a car is on the road, the more its access points become exposed. Thus the industry's feverish race...
News Electronics & Computers
Car Sickness, Occupant Seating and Politics Will Shape Autonomous Vehicle Interiors
The eventual arrival of autonomous vehicles will transform vehicle interiors, but engineers making the changes will have to consider issues as diverse as...
News Mechanical & Fluid Systems
2016 SAE Congress: Computers Will Amplify Human Creativity, Says DARPA Expert
New manufacturing methods are at odds with the human mind’s ability to envision innovative component shapes, but computers can help fill the creative void,...
News Manufacturing & Prototyping
2016 SAE Congress: Innovation Stars at 8th Annual GAMIC Awards
Novel technologies from Michigan-based companies were standouts in the 8th annual Global Automotive & Mobility Innovation Challenge (GAMIC). The founders of these winning...
News Unmanned Systems
2016 SAE Congress: Auto Industry Must Adopt Faster 'Clock Speed'
Nimble startup companies are racing giants Google and Apple at high speed to gain a role in the comparatively slow-moving auto industry. Automotive companies must adapt to the...
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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...
News Automotive
Mustang Loses Scoops, Little Else in Transition to RHD
“One Ford” is a technological and commercial philosophy that the company is energetically pursuing to minimize market-specific modifications for a broad raft of products. The...
News Electronics & Computers
Wiring Harnesses Are Opportunity for Augmented Reality
Augmented reality (AR) has been used by transportation companies for years, but it’s gained few mainstream applications. That may be changing as manufacturing and service teams...
News Automotive
2016 SAE Congress: Engineering Education Gets Industry Boost
Deep Orange sounds like a top-secret code, but Clemson University engineering students have known it as their pathway to greater automotive knowledge and real-world experience....
Technology Report RF & Microwave Electronics
Connected Vehicles Will Be Hackers' Trophy
Cyber security has swiftly gone from a loose concept to an issue that rivals quality, safety and other mainstays of design must-haves. It’s a multi-faceted challenge that extends from simple...
News Transportation
2016 SAE Congress: Is Biomimicry in Your Design Future?
Animals, birds, and mammals are natural-born innovators that can inspire automotive engineers to create novel technologies. The term for such an influence is biomimicry.
News Design
2016 SAE Congress: Clemson University and Toyota Unveil UBox Concept
A concept vehicle engineered by Clemson University graduate students features a curved glass roof with a multi-material support structure produced by a novel manufacturing...
News Propulsion
Nautilus Claims Radical Advance in HCCI Engine Development
Claiming its novel base-engine design solves most of the intrinsic drawbacks that have slowed auto-industry development of homogenous-charge compression-ignition (HCCI) engines,...
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Cybersecurity Experts Confess Their Greatest Worries
What keeps you up at night? Cybersecurity experts at the SAE 2016 World Congress were asked about their deepest worries during a panel session on the levels and nature of cyber...
Technology Report RF & Microwave Electronics
Electric Propulsion Is Now “Inescapable”
Though battery-powered vehicles haven’t yet met predicted sales levels, leading OEMs are bullish about the future, saying that newer generation vehicles now provide features and prices that...
News Communications
New Open Source Software Simplifies Remote-Access Communications
Design engineers who want to focus on high level functions are increasingly turning to open source software modules that can handle mundane tasks. The Genivi Alliance is...
Product Briefs Power
Data Processing System for Acoustics and Vibration
The nCode brand of durability, test, and analysis software by HBM introduces nCode VibeSys, a new data processing system designed to help acoustics and vibration engineers ensure that their...
News Automotive
V-CR, Water Injection, New EGR Methods Top SAE Engines Symposium
Powertrain experts detailed the technologies they see as most promising to enable light-vehicle engines to meet global CO2 regulations through 2025, at the 2016 SAE...
News Software
Digital Dummies in Virtual Collisions Augment Traditional Crash Tests
A car crash takes half a blink of an eye. Detailed knowledge of the crucial split-second when the crash impact energy flashes through a vehicle’s body and then onto the...
Global Vehicles Transportation
Nissan Targets Cabin NVH, Makes Big Investment in Sentra Upgrade
Significant updates to the seventh generation Sentra make the 2016 model Nissan’s quietest and most dynamic-driving compact sedan to date. The automaker invested more than...
News Aerospace
DSD, Solvay 'Sink Their Teeth' into Plastic Transmission Advances
For the automotive industry, plastics have long been a weight-saving material of choice, with a wide range of high-volume applications from body panels to interiors and...
News Design
Safety Symposium Cites Training and Technology to Reduce Teen Fatalities, Accidents
Teens are 4% of the driving population, but are involved in 8% of the accidents, the annual Traffic Safety Symposium of the New York Auto Show was told by...
News Automotive
Tesla's "Affordable" Model 3 Brings Technology Questions
The ravenous feeding habits of the 24-hour news cycle rarely turn toward automotive transportation, and usually only when a disaster has happened, such as Toyota’s acceleration mess...
Articles Propulsion
Defying the disruptors and Driving Innovation
Need proof of the auto industry’s crazy pace of change? Look no further than the daily news, where reports of each emergent player — and their impact on what remains of the status quo —...
Articles Transportation
Preparing for a 48-volt Revival
More than a decade after the widely anticipated 42-volt electrical revolution died—the victim of increasingly efficient 12-volt components, wiring strategies, and digital controls—demand for greater...
Articles Software
Additive Manufacturing Enhances GTDI Pistons
The trend toward downsized gasoline turbo-charged direct-injected (GTDI) engines has raised peak combustion chamber pressures to 160 bar (2321 psi) and temperatures above 2000°C—nearly the...
News RF & Microwave Electronics
Bidirectional ESD Protection Diodes
Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. has released two new bidirectional single-line ESD protection diodes in the compact SOD-323 package. Measuring 1.95 x 1.5 mm (0.077 x 0.06 in) with a low 0.95-mm (0.037-in)...
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