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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 trend....
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Aftermarket Augments Off-Highway Autonomous Efforts
Continually transformed with more than a century’s advances in capabilities, hydraulics and fuel efficiency, today’s heavy mobile equipment must also become more intelligent and...
News Regulations/Standards
SAE WCX 2022: Vehicles Are the Gateway to Data, Data, and More Data
The mobility ecosystem is bursting with data from the passenger vehicles, buses, ride-share vehicles, delivery vans, and other transportation modes using driver assist and...
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Volkswagen ID.Buzz All-electric Vans Combine Iconic Styling With Modern Technology
After a more than two-decade wait from when the concept was first unveiled at the 2001 Detroit Auto Show, Volkswagen finally revealed the production version...
News Unmanned Systems
ZF Debuts New Modular Inverter, ADAS Supply Deal at CES
ZF's long history of working with automakers now extends to Vietnam. ZF and VinFast Automotive, the automotive arm of the VinFast Global conglomerate, announced at CES 2022 that it...
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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 digital...
News Unmanned Systems
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 Electronics & Computers
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...
Articles Electronics & Computers
The Future of Automated Vehicle Cabins
Although there are yet no privately owned, fully automated vehicles on the road, automakers and suppliers are working to develop vehicle interior technologies, materials and designs they think will...
News Design
Next-Gen HMI Crucial to Increasing ADAS Efficacy
Next-generation HMI (human-machine interface) technology platforms allow off-highway OEMs and system designers to support productivity tools like computer vision – including object...
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Vermeer Concept Targets Autonomous Baling
Vermeer Corp. is expanding the off-highway industry’s push to remove drivers, bringing autonomous operations to the arduous task of retrieving baled hay with a concept vehicle that carries up to...
Articles Sensors/Data Acquisition
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 and...
Articles Connectivity
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...
Articles Sensors/Data Acquisition
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...
Articles Manned Systems
Bosch Quantifies Cost Savings for ADAS-Equipped Trucks
Heavy-duty trucks still are disproportionately involved in deadly crashes on U.S. roadways. “Ten percent of the fatalities involve large trucks when large trucks only account for 4%...
News Manned Systems
Purpose, Perceptions for Driver-Assist Tech Solidify
A panel of automated-driving experts at this week’s virtual presentation of SAE International’s annual Government/Industry Meeting had strong opinions on the current state of...
News Energy
Traxen ‘Trains’ AI-Based Adaptive Cruise Control for Trucks
Artificial intelligence (AI), high-definition maps, and advanced algorithms and sensors combine to enable Traxen’s intelligent adaptive cruise control (ACC) system for...
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'Level 2+': Making Automated Driving Profitable, Mainstream
Soon after SAE International released its J3016 “Levels of Automated Driving” standard in January 2014, engineers and product planners working in automated-vehicle development...
Technology Report Software
CES 2021: GM Creates BrightDrop, a New Electrified Delivery and Logistics Company
During her CES 2021 keynote on January 12, GM Chairman and CEO Mary Barra announced the creation of a new logistics company called BrightDrop. The new...
Articles Unmanned Systems
10 Best Practices for ADAS and AV Testing
Testing for automated driver-assist systems (ADAS) has required a completely new approach to testing. The most obvious reason for this is the sheer number of sensors and actuators involved in any...
News Unmanned Systems
Western Star Ups Vocational-Truck Ante with All-New 49X
Purpose-built from the ground up, the next-generation Western Star 49X vocational truck is underpinned by a stronger, lighter chassis and equipped with a new X-series steel-reinforced...
Original Equipment Power
Ford Expands EV Lineup with E-Transit Cargo Van
Ford revealed on November 12 its next fully electric vehicle (EV), the 2022 E-Transit cargo van, with the automaker’s new president and CEO Jim Farley stating, “The transition of fleet...
News Regulations/Standards
AV and ADAS Testing from out of the Box
For self-driving vehicle systems to gain the full confidence of the public, the mobility industry and government regulators, OEMs have to prove that AVs (and those equipped with enhanced SAE Level-2...
News Unmanned Systems
‘Software, Start Your Engines’
The Indianapolis 500 has long billed itself as “the greatest spectacle in racing,” but it’s difficult to imagine that cars racing at 120 mph (193 km/h) or more around the fabled “Brickyard” –...
News Sensors/Data Acquisition
'Boaring' in on Vehicle-To-Animal Road Safety
A wild boar can ruin a driver’s day — and a lot more. Hitting one of these fast-running (up to 25 mph/40 km/h) and heavy (up to 400 lb/181 kg in the southern U.S.) porkers when they dart...
News Data Acquisition
Reconstructing Accidents in the ADAS Age
With advanced driver-assist systems (ADAS) evolving rapidly, the technology will continue to improve safety as it augments the skill and attention of human drivers. Accidents will still occur,...
Articles Software
Ford, Bosch Demo Automated-Parking Project in Detroit
Ford, Bosch and real estate firm Bedrock are preparing North America’s first demonstration of automated parking in a public garage outfitted with the technology to enable a fleet of...
News Unmanned Systems
Lunewave Promises Low-Cost Radar with High-Performance 360-Degree View
Radar sensing has been used for various functions in passenger vehicles for more than two decades. Like all sensors intended an automated vehicle (AV), radar has...
News Imaging
What We’re Driving: 2020 Kia Telluride
The 2020 Kia Telluride is one of the classic lightning-in-a-bottle models an automaker enjoys maybe once every couple of decades. Assertive-but-not-obnoxious styling combine with a vast cabin trimmed...
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