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Convergence 2000 Online Show Daily - Monday
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Delphi occupant detection for advanced airbags
Delphi Automotive Systems announced that it is supplying a smart occupant-detection system for Jaguar and four Ford and Lincoln-Mercury models. The Passive Occupant Detection System (PODS) is the first weight-sensing system to reach the market, according to Delphi, and is standard equipment on the 2001 Jaguar XK sports car's Adaptive Restraint Technology System (ARTS).
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SAE to team with CEA on auto electronics conference
Recognizing the importance that consumer demand has on fast-paced development of telematics and other automotive electronics devices, SAE is teaming with the Consumer Electronics Association to sponsor a new conference focused on engineering those devices into vehicles in an equally fast-paced way.
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Diversified Software launches IVIS
A just-released software package from Diversified Software Industries, Inc. (DSI) that manages in-vehicle information presentations "is so open and flexible that it can support applications today and in the future," said Brian Payne, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for the Coralville, Iowa-based company. "So if new legislation comes into play, our framework will be able to support the changes."
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Business windfall for Lear
Electronics is grabbing a bigger share of product revenues for a supplier of automotive interior systems. In 1999, sales of electronics equaled 12% of business for Lear Corp. The projection for 2000 is 16%. But by 2005/06, electronics revenues are expected to tally between 35% and 40% of business.
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"Everything should be connected"
Coming as it does from someone whose fundamental business premise is that "anything with a digital heartbeat should be connected," the assertion by Detroit native Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems that the automobile is "nothing more than a Java browser with tires" is not surprising.
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Microsoft and mobile Internet access
"The car has been pretty much disconnected," Bob McKenzie, general manager of the Automotive Business Unit of Microsoft, said during a Convergence 2000 press conference to introduce Car.NET - a computing and communications framework that brings telematics and the Internet into a vehicle via any service delivered to any device.
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Motorola develops high-performance embedded processor with Visteon
In what it says is an automotive industry first, Motorola unveiled on Monday an embedded processor that includes 1 MB of flash EEPROM memory. The MPC565 was developed for harsh environments -- under the hood, on the engine block, and inside the transmission on certain new gearbox applications -- that require very rugged memory and processor technology.
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Electronics: a core competency
Automakers are established experts in powertrain, chassis, and body, but there's a fourth engineering discipline demanding OEM attention: electronics.
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Philips Semiconductors launches first LIN transceiver
Philips Semiconductors announced on Monday its first Local Interconnect Network (LIN) family product. The TJA1020 stand-alone transceiver features low power moding, local and remote wakeup (source recognition), fail-safe features, and good EMC performance.
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Games in cars
One method of bringing Internet connectivity to the automobile: put a huge satellite dish on top of the car. "It's not a good solution," said Shoichiro Irimajiri, President of Sega Enterprises, Ltd.
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Visteon is wired for change
Telematics is an industry poised for tenfold growth by 2010, and Visteon plans on being a major player, company President and COO Michael Johnston said Monday during the first day of Convergence 2000.
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