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Convergence 2000 Online Show Daily - Wednesday
- General Motors promotes SenseAble driving
General Motors Corp. announced on Wednesday the creation of "SenseAble driving," a new safety initiative designed to help reduce the risk of driver distraction while enhancing vehicle technology and safety.
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- An electronics future
By 2010, the automotive industry's electronic pulse will pump a dual-voltage system into more than a million production vehicles.
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- Addressing driver distractions
The catchy song "Call Me. Call Me Anytime" was popular years before in-vehicle cell phone usage became as common a habit as turning on the car radio.
"The number of cell phones in the U.S. has grown from 5 million in 1990 to more than 100 million today, and 85% of all cell-phone subscribers report that they use a cell phone while driving," Jack Smith, Chairman of the Board of General Motors Corp., said during a Convergence 2000 keynote speech.
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- FCI introduces interconnect system for flex cable
FCI Automotive announced the launch of what it calls the world's first complete interconnection system used in the automated assembly of flex cable harnesses for the automotive industry. The high-density and modular ModuPack system, designed to deliver reliability in automated volume assembly, helps reduce cable harness weight by 50% while reducing applied cost.
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- Ford chairman espouses sustainability
For all the improvements the automotive industry has achieved in vehicle emissions, fuel economy, and convenience, "It's going to take an incredible amount of work, a lot of inspired thinking, and some unforeseen successes."
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- Improved-accuracy simulation by Opal-RT
Opal-RT's RT-Events blockset works with Simulink to improve the accuracy of fixed-time-step simulations commonly used in real-time and hardware-in-the-loop applications. Its accuracy approaches that of variable-time-step simulation, but can run hundreds of times faster without significant accuracy loss. It works by compensating for errors induced when a comparator's output changes between time steps.
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- IR reveals plastic HEXFET power MOSFET
International Rectifier used the Convergence 2000 venue to launch what it calls the "first commercially available" HEXFET power MOSFET with a maximum temperature rating of 200^C in a TO-220 package.
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