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Road Rules, a San Francisco start-up, explores world of car APIs

2015-04-30

A key to connecting smart phones to third-party software developers' mind-boggling array of mobile applications is the application programming interface. The husband and wife team behind Road Rules discuss discuss a range of topics from car hacking that is mostly overblown to apps that use more car data.

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Continental's Matschi: mobility is changing

2015-04-24

Traffic gridlock, accident fatalities, and vehicle emissions are not good things. So the underlying challenge for the auto industry is to develop and use technologies appropriately for society. Matschi was the Thursday morning keynote speaker in the AVL theater inside Detroit’s Cobo Center at the 2015 SAE World Congress.

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Annual traffic safety forum looks at NHTSA data, OE teen driving aids

2015-04-21

Although 30% of traffic fatalities are alcohol-related, and electronic Driver Alcohol Detection System for Safety has appeal, more targeted approaches to reducing them are being taken by car makers. Programs aimed at reducing teen driver accidents and death were described at the 25th annual World Traffic Safety Symposium during the New York Auto Show.

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GM prognostics use 4G for data acquisition, cloud analysis

2015-04-24

Initial focus is on battery, starter, and fuel pump to provide early warnings of impending issues with starting a car, as discussed in a 2015 SAE World Congress panel. The 4G connection in 2016 Chevrolets obtains data, cloud server holds the analysis algorithms.

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Xerox eyes DSRC for vehicle infrastructure support

2015-05-12

Many companies are planning for the eventual adoption of vehicle-to vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications, with Xerox targeting tolling and commercial vehicle monitoring.

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Editorial: High-voltage developments

2015-03-05

Tightening vehicle efficiency and emissions regulations and increasing demand for onboard electrical power means that higher voltages, in the form of supplemental 48-volt subsystems, may soon be nearing production.

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SAE Eye on Engineering Quick Take: Rice is nice for IGBTs

2015-02-24

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Semiconductor power-device analyzer

2015-03-18

Keysight Technologies has enhanced its B1505A power-device analyzer/curve tracer, allowing it to characterize all key parameters of on-wafer and packaged devices for semiconductor development.

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AT&T, Airbiquity team up for connected-vehicle services

2015-03-18

AT&T is broadening its efforts to tap into the burgeoning connected-car market by inking a multi-year agreement with Airbiquity. The union will help AT&T provide a single technology for global vehicles.

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Audi details piloted driving technology

2015-04-01

Before autonomous vehicles make drivers obsolete, electronic technologies will depend on people to make decisions when something unusual happens.

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Automaker group commits to privacy for vehicle personal data

2014-11-17

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In-vehicle LED lamp module-to-board connectors

2016-08-15

Developed for connecting in-vehicle LED lamp modules to control boards, Panasonic Corp.’s connectors improve designing in-vehicle LED lighting.

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SAE Eye on Engineering Quick Take: Honda pedestrian detection system

2014-11-12

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SAE Eye on Engineering Quick Take: OTA Cyber firmware

2016-06-30

As new vehicles become more connected to the internet, to other cars, and to the road infrastructure, the number of potential intrusion points for hackers is growing fast.

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Honda’s new e-motor magnet aims to mitigate China rare-earth monopoly

2016-07-17

The material—hot deformed neodymium—is being used first in a new permanent-magnet traction motor powering Honda’s 2017 Freed Sport Hybrid compact minivan. Significantly, the material is not a “heavy” rare-earth metal, one that requires “doping” with dysprosium or terium rare earths to achieve high heat-resistance characteristics.

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LIN family for in-vehicle networking

2014-12-09

Atmel Corp.’s next-generation family of local interconnect network transceivers, system basis chips, and voltage regulators are suitable for automotive body, powertrain, infotainment sensor, and actuator applications.

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A123 Systems is hot on 12-V Li-ion for microhybrids

2014-11-26

Lead-acid batteries have clear advantages in cost and low-temperature performance, but Li-ion has its own set of pluses.

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Personalization, autonomy create many challenges for engineers

2014-10-22

Meeting diverse customer demands is a vexing challenge that will require heavy amounts of engineering work. Development teams will have to give drivers more personal options while they also determine how to ensure that autonomous driving platforms mimic the ways humans sometimes break traffic laws.

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‘Supercars’ and character are critical in the autonomous future

2016-04-25

Nissan VP of global product strategy Keno Kato talks about the GT-R supercar's role in Nissan’s product-development “ethic" and why performance and autonomous development aren't mutually exclusive.

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SAE Eye on Engineering Quick Take: Google's new Novi engineering center

2016-06-17

Southeast Michigan - not Silicon Valley - is fast becoming the North American center for advanced vehicle technologies.