Driver Assistance Systems
Advanced Driver Assistance Systems
Fuel Efficiency and Emerging Technologies
Transportation Efficiencies
Autonomous Vehicles
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With Self-Driving Cars, We’re All Cartographers
GPS Systems
Transportation Efficiencies
Urban Mobility
Autonomous Vehicles
Advanced Driver Assistance Systems
Mapmaking used to be the domain of a select group of cartographers that would gather, review, and plot out data onto sheets of paper. The…
Commercial Vehicle Electrification Can Have an Outsized Impact
In 2007, General Motors (GM) launched versions of its full-size pickup trucks and SUVs powered by a two-mode hybrid system. While the system was a technical success, it was a commercial failure. The logic behind hybridizing its thirstiest vehicles…
Cyber Security Is Imperative Before Deploying Autonomous Vehicles
Fuel Efficiency and Emerging Technologies
Transportation Efficiencies
Autonomous Vehicles
Automotive Cyber Security
August 2016 brought a flurry of autonomous driving announcements from Delphi, nuTonomy, Ford, Velodyne, Volvo, Uber, Quanergy, and…
Low Voltage Is the Entry Point to the Full Vehicle Electrification Spectrum
Low Voltage Electrification
48V Systems
Fuel Efficiency and Emerging Technologies
Transportation Efficiencies
Stop-Start Vehicles
There is little disagreement in the auto industry that the future of propulsion systems includes increasing levels of…
Ford Goes All-In on Trucks, Utilities, and Hybrids
At January’s North American International Auto Show, almost all of the significant product announcements were about new pickup trucks and SUVs from Ford, General Motors, and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA). Maintaining sales of those high margin…
Automated Vehicles Won't Be a Cure-All
Modern automated driving technology development was initiated by the desire to save lives. Not on the road, actually: on the battlefield. Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan were regularly killed or maimed by roadside explosives. The effort began in…
Cleanliness Is Next to Autonomy
Automotive Industry
Transportation Efficiencies
Mobility Services
Automated Vehicles
Automated Driving Systems
Spring 2018, while driving through Wisconsin on a lovely evening, I encountered swarms of mayflies that caked the front of the vehicle…
Reducing Our Carbon Footprint through Remote Work
The pandemic has undoubtedly been a tragedy, sickening more than 17 million people and killing nearly 700,000 at time of writing. While no one ever wants to endure such an event, it would be more tragic if we failed to take some positive lessons from…
Uncharted Territory: Building New Pathways to E-Mobility Resilience
Electric Mobility
Electric Vehicles
COVID-19
Automotive Industry
Urban Mobility
As the calendar rolled over into 2020, the global automotive industry was already anticipating a tumultuous decade ahead. Little did anyone know at the time that many of…