Automotive Engineering
Automotive Engineering highlights issues related to automobile manufacturing – including vehicle parts and accessories – and the environmental impact and safety of automotive products, production facilities and manufacturing processes.
innovations-report offers stimulating reports and articles on a variety of topics ranging from automobile fuel cells, hybrid technologies, energy saving vehicles and carbon particle filters to engine and brake technologies, driving safety and assistance systems.
Automated driving: Safety risks during takeover
In a recent study on automated driving by TU Dresden and DEKRA, traffic and engineering psychologists analyzed reactions to possible malfunctions of this future human-machine interface. The study of various…
Location key to improved autonomous vehicle vision
QUT robotics researchers working with Ford Motor Company have found a way to tell an autonomous vehicle which cameras to use when navigating. Professor Michael Milford, Joint Director of the…
Smart cars are on the radar
Automatic object recognition and tracking using lidar. Innovative take on laser radar systems for smart cars outperforms camera-based object recognition. The automobile industry in China has been developing extremely rapidly…
More security in electronic vehicle systems
Modern vehicles have a large number of electronic systems that are networked with each other. Since these systems are at risk from cyber attacks, Fraunhofer IPMS developed a CANsec IP…
Data that could train self-driving ATVs
Carnegie Mellon Roboticists go off road to compile dataset likely largest for off-road environments. Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University took an all-terrain vehicle on wild rides through tall grass, loose…
Sophisticated fluid mechanics model is on a roll
Rice-Waseda project ups its game for complexity with aerodynamic model of a moving car and its tires. The complex aerodynamics around a moving car and its tires are hard to…
