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.
Lane departure warning systems help drowsy drivers avoid crashes
Called Lane Departure Warnings (LDW), these systems are designed to help reduce car crashes by alerting drowsy drivers that the vehicle has wandered out of the…
VTI offers unique sensor solution for use in vehicles
The new VTI automotive digital accelerometer platform is intended for single and multiple axis acceleration and inclination measurement. It has been developed…
Bigger is not necessarily better — in hydrogen storage
In research published in the journal Angewandte Chemie, and featured in Nature and Chemistry World, they studied materials that have a porous sponge-like…
Robots find regular teeth brushing helps them munch through 50,000 aluminium spot welds
Resistance spot welding research by Paul Briskham at the University of Warwick's Warwick Manufacturing Group in conjunction with Douglas Boomer of Innoval…
Real-time traffic routing from the comfort of your car
Engineers have developed a system for taking anonymous cell-phone location information and turning it into an illuminated traffic map that identifies…
VTT recommends special steels for automotive industry
They are also easy to recycle, which reduces the vehicle’s life-cycle costs. Tests show that new steel structures reduce the risk of corrosion, and hence also…