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OCTOBER 26, 2021

For three years, about 60 partners worked together in the areas of sensor-fusion, electronic architectures and artificial intelligence coordinated by Infineon. This mechanism ensures the fail operationality of the system, for example, sensor fusion, trajectory planning and object recognition tasks of SAE Level 3 and 4 functions.

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JULY 20, 2016

Success in developing a sustainable composite could reduce vehicle weight and lower energy consumption, while paring the use of petrochemicals and the impact of vehicle production on the environment. The mixture is then put through injection molding to shape into the desired part. 13 mm wide. mm with an average width of 25 μm.

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MARCH 13, 2022

With Aeva as part of our DRIVE ecosystem network, we can provide customers access to this next generation of sensing capabilities for safe autonomous driving. —Gary Hicok, Senior Vice President of Engineering at NVIDIA.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2018

In addition, Novelis CSCs will provide an environment to demonstrate product concepts, simulate customer processes and performance in use, as well as leverage data to educate stakeholders throughout the supply chain about elements ranging from forming to costing.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Ford is the first automaker to test autonomous vehicles at Mcity—the full-scale simulated real-world urban environment at the University of Michigan. The 32-acre facility is part of the university’s Mobility Transformation Center. Earlier post.) Mcity opened in July. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Since then, through the end of November 2015, the company has sold a total of 447,200 units of an expanded hybrid line-up that includes two plug-in hybrids: the C-MAX Energi (on-sale October 2012) and the Fusion Energi (on-sale February 2013). Ford—the top seller of plug-in hybrid vehicles and second largest electrified vehicle (i.e.,

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2018

Built on Cepton’s patented micro-motion technology (MMT) platform, Vista has no rotational or frictional parts, consisting only of high-maturity automotive components for expedited automotive grade certification. The Vista sensor is the fourth LiDAR product developed by the Cepton team over its first 20 months in operation.

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JANUARY 10, 2018

Runtime is in-vehicle middleware that provides a secure framework to enable applications and algorithms to communicate in a real-time, high-performance environment. It enables sensor fusion in a sensor-independent manner, so sensors can be upgraded as new capabilities become available, such as radar going from 2-D to 3-D.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2017

As part of the testing, researchers from both companies will investigate customer reactions to interacting with a self-driving vehicle as a part of their delivery experience. Domino’s Pizza and Ford Motor are collaborating to understand the role that self-driving vehicles can play in pizza delivery.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2019

Part of ZF’s S-Cam4 family of automotive-grade cameras, the Dual-cam is designed to help meet varying global regulatory requirements and delivers advanced functions such as Traffic Sign Recognition, Lane Keeping Assist and Centering and object and pedestrian detection to enable Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB).

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AUGUST 2, 2021

This subtopic will accelerate the development of innovative machine tooling solutions for the production of lightweight parts for use in automotive applications to address the evolving market. Topic Area 1b: Advanced Tooling for Lightweight Automotive Components.

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DECEMBER 9, 2014

Williams Advanced Engineering is part of a consortium that has secured government funding from Innovate UK to test driverless cars in the Bristol region. An autonomous vehicle system will be integrated with the simulator to test it in a virtual environment.

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APRIL 30, 2013

In this next phase of development, engineers will drive Super Cruise vehicles in more and more challenging driving situations to test the system in a wide variety of environments to help refine it. As we continually upgrade Super Cruise’s enabling technologies, it is important to expose the updated system to different environments.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 12, 2023

One promising way to meet modern industrial challenges is by using additive manufacturing (AM) processes, such as powder bed fusion and other emerging techniques. Developed in concert with numerous manufacturers, the DRAMA initiative includes the new powder bed fusion AM facility mentioned previously.

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JUNE 30, 2017

This testing will take place in challenging weather conditions and environments including on roads under repair, with lane reductions and closures, are wet or covered in snow, and where there is poor visibility.

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MARCH 21, 2017

Elektrobit (EB), a leading developer of embedded and connected technology solutions for the automotive industry, introduced four new modules for its EB robinos product line: EB robinos Grid Fusion, EB robinos Path Planning, EB robinos Positioning and EB robinos Safety Management. The new EB robinos modules are: EB robinos Grid Fusion.

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DECEMBER 13, 2013

A major part of the company’s Blueprint for Sustainability, the expansion of Auto Start-Stop comes as the 1.0-liter By making Auto Start-Stop available on more vehicles, we are working to be part of the solution to environmental sustainability with effective, fuel-saving technologies. liter EcoBoost. Earlier post.).

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FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The solution is part of Micron’s new portfolio of memory and storage products targeted for automotive functional safety based on the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 26262 standard. LPDDR5 addresses these requirements with a 50% increase in data access speeds and more than 20% improvement in power efficiency.

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MARCH 8, 2023

If you move up to the manufacturing part, you have some of our integrated device manufacturers in analog and analog mixed-signal and power devices, which is, of course, quite a very important area of devices and production to be in. You also mentioned virtual prototyping as part of the plan.

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AUGUST 2, 2016

These include how to capture and interpret road geometry through computing intensive sensor fusion, precise vehicle positioning, laser projection, driver monitoring via inward facing cameras, and designing sophisticated algorithms to generate precise augmentation content in the viewing field of the driver. —Dominique Bonte.

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AUGUST 19, 2011

liter I-4 engine for the Ford Fusion and Ford Escape; the 5.0-liter Ford, its Tier 1 suppliers, and BASF invested significant engineering resources and processing know-how to ensure that the designs for the manifolds using recycled polyamide material would be robust enough to withstand the harsh heat and chemical environments found underhood.

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DECEMBER 23, 2016

Over the duration of the research program, they will advance the automation through level 3—where drivers can turn their attention away in certain environments, such as freeways—and ultimately reach level 4, where the automated system can control the car under most all circumstances. Picture: WatCAR. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 25, 2024

What’s more, the scale of the problem makes artificial intelligence a compelling part of the solution. In 2019, we trained a machine learning model by scattering inert PFM-1 land mines and collecting visual imagery via drone flights in various environments, including roads, urban areas, grassy fields, and places with taller vegetation.

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OCTOBER 14, 2013

This lab will give us a stepping-stone between the research lab and the production environment, and a chance to have input much earlier in the development process. In the span of 15 years, the industry has gone from lead-acid to nickel-metal-hydride to the lithium-ion batteries used in Ford C-MAX and Ford Fusion hybrids on the road today.

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JANUARY 23, 2016

ADAS platforms: NVIDIA DRIVE Automotive Platform for computer vision, deep learning, sensor fusion. ADAS vision: Itseez ADAS algorithms for pedestrian detection, forward collision warnings, traffic sign recognition, and lane detection; and TI’s vision libraries for front cameras, surround-view systems, sensor fusion, and smart backup cameras.

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OCTOBER 13, 2020

The BMW Group is taking an all-encompassing approach to monitoring the vehicle environment. One of the areas the company is exploring to this end is how acoustic signal processing can be added to the AI sensor fusion. At the press shop, flat sheet metal parts are turned into high-precision components for the car body.

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DECEMBER 4, 2022

I’ll just be driving the same speed I had in my old Ford Fusion, but they’ll cut in front of me and drive really slow or prevent me from switching lanes. Electric Vehicle Association spokesperson and Tesla owner Marc Geller noted that anti-Tesla sentiments may be changing, and part of it may be due to CEO Elon Musk’s political inclinations.

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DECEMBER 30, 2011

Ford is also developing year-over-year efficiency targets as part of its annual environmental business planning process and has established a cross-functional team spanning several divisions to review water usage more holistically. —Sue Cischke, group vice president, Sustainability, Environment and Safety Engineering.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

From known, existing parts, we’ve built a new protein that does several essential functions. This proof of concept also shows that BMCs can be broken down to the sum of their parts, ones that can be exchanged. The researchers describe their work in a paper in the journal The Plant Cell. —Cheryl Kerfeld. Resources. 15.00329.

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JUNE 8, 2021

Desktop Metal is the first and only company to qualify 4140 low-alloy steel for use with metal binder jetting systems, enabling its use in mass production end-use part applications. 4140 provides excellent strength and hardness, which is essential for the spline teeth that connect this part to the rest of its assembly.

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JUNE 27, 2012

Developing these technologies is part of the first step in a journey toward a more connected future. Traffic Jam Assist has the potential to follow the traffic ahead while maintaining lane position in environments where there are no pedestrians, cyclists or animals, and where lanes are clearly marked.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

As part of the launch in the European markets, Audi offers the new A6 with one diesel and one gasoline unit. The parking pilot and the garage pilot form part of the Park assist package, one of three packages. It calculates continuously a detailed model of the environment from a fusion of sensor data. g/mi)) is a 3.0

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JULY 12, 2013

The investment forms part of the report “ Driving success – an industrial strategy for growth and sustainability in the UK automotive sector ”, published jointly by the government and industry. On average only a third of the parts that go into vehicles manufactured in the UK are sourced from the UK. Technology roadmaps.

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JANUARY 22, 2015

At Ford, we view ourselves as both a mobility and an auto company, as we drive innovation in every part of our business. This new research center shows Ford’s commitment to be part of the Silicon Valley innovation ecosystem—anticipating customers’ wants and needs, especially on connectivity, mobility and autonomous vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2015

As part of its strategic partnership with Jaguar Land Rover, EPSRC issued a joint call for research proposals that focussed on developing fully autonomous cars: “ Towards Autonomy - Smart and Connected Control ”. The research will take place at ten UK universities and the Transport Research Laboratory. The Cooperative Car.

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JANUARY 5, 2017

As part of this partnership, the BMW Group will be responsible for driving control and dynamics, evaluation of overall functional safety including setting up a high performance simulation engine, overall component integration, production of prototypes and eventually scaling the platform via deployment partners.

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JANUARY 11, 2010

Our industry is at the intersection of three critical global issues—the economy, energy and the environment. As part of its aggressive electrification plan, Ford in 2009 doubled the number and volume of its hybrid electric vehicles to include the award-winning Ford Fusion and Escape hybrids and Mercury Milan and Mariner hybrids.

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