Autonomous Vehicle Engineering
October 2018
- Editorial
As autonomy and mobility merge - LiDAR Giant
100 competitors want to eat his lunch, but Velodyne president Mike Jellen aims to maintain leadership in this fast-moving, trillion-dollar technology space. - Rewriting the Code
Renovo's Aware operating system for Automated Mobility on Demand (AMoD) is expanding its reach as more players see open-platform software as a unifying-and simplifying-answer to quicker and less-costly automated-vehicle deployment. - Expanding the Role of FPGAs
New demands for on-vehicle data processing, and over-the-air updating, are expanding the use of these programmable semicon-ductors in production vehicles. The recent Daimler-Xilinx linkup shows the way forward. - Sly HMI
Mitsubishi Electric sees 'hybrid haptics' and even your own vehicle-de-ployed drone as new methods to enhance the in-cabin experience. - Screen Glare be Gone
A new atmospheric optical bonding process ensures the "smart surfaces" in AV cabins have significantly-reduced glare and greater clarity-all with improved durability. - For Lidar, MEMS the Word
Tiny gimballed mirrors on chips are being developed that could improve the form factor and cost of automotive lidar. - Scooter, Scat?
Some see nuisance and infrastructure pressures, but dockless electric scooters and other small rideshare vehicles probably are too useful to be regulated away. - Phone Alliance's Standard Targets Automotive
Sensors
MIPI plans to have a high-speed automotive standard ready by 2019, to meet the data-processing demand of automated vehicles. - Heavy-Duty Disruption
Truck-making centenarian Navistar learns new tricks by brushing up on 'business anthropology' and studying disruptors like Amazon.
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