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.
Impaired-driver sensor could pave the way for safer vehicles
The bipartisan infrastructure bill recently signed into law by President Joe Biden includes a requirement for automakers to install driver monitoring systems that detect intoxicated or impaired drivers. Current systems…
Research for Agile Production of Electric Motors
German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy to Fund the 18 Partners in the AgiloDrive2 Research Project with a Total of 16.4 Million Euros until 2024. Although electric mobility…
Autonomous Driving: Styrian Development Saves Millions in Test Kilometres
TU Graz, JOANNEUM RESEARCH, AVL and Fraunhofer Austria have developed a method to validate test drives through highly realistic driving simulation studies and to substantially simplify the approval process for…
New technology gives smart cars ‘x-ray’ vision, detecting hidden pedestrians, cyclists
Australian researchers have developed disruptive technology allowing autonomous vehicles to track running pedestrians hidden behind buildings, and cyclists obscured by larger cars, trucks, and buses. The autonomous vehicle uses game…
Silicon anodes muscle in on battery technology
Scientists show exactly how promising approach to better batteries breaks down. Silicon is a staple of the digital revolution, shunting loads of signals on a device that’s likely just inches…
Making self-driving cars human-friendly
Automated vehicles could be made more pedestrian-friendly thanks to new research which could help them predict when people will cross the road. University of Leeds-led scientists investigating how to better…
Researcher develops a smart-car Identity and Access Management (IAM) system
Subhajit Bandopadhyay is working on a smart car IAM based on Usage Control (UCON) and Verifiable Credentials (VCs). A post-graduate student in City’s Institute for Cyber Security (ICS) is attempting…
RISC-V Functional Safety Processor IP Core
The Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS and semiconductor intellectual property provider CAST, Inc. announced the immediate availability of EMSA5-FS, a fault-tolerant embedded RISC-V processor IP core designed to meet…
Driving in the snow is a team effort for AI sensors
Nobody likes driving in a blizzard, including autonomous vehicles. To make self-driving cars safer on snowy roads, engineers look at the problem from the car’s point of view. A major…
Microscanner mirrors replace human vision
Enhanced safety for autonomous driving In autonomous vehicles, it is advanced technology that takes the wheel, allowing passengers to sit back and enjoy the ride. Yet such systems have to…
