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By Edward Tse, Gao Feng Advisory
China’s electric vehicle market and is now outpacing its Western counterparts.
Already the largest auto market in the world, China is now also the largest electric vehicle market.
It is also the largest car market for many global automakers, including Volkswagen, BMW, General Motors and Mercedes-Benz. [Read more…] about Electric car market in China ‘outpacing Western counterparts’
Silicon Mobility has released new software for the industry’s first automotive field programmable controller unit which the company says “enables higher yield power conversion for electric and hybrid vehicles”.
Silicon Mobility, a developer of control solutions for cleaner mobility, says its new software, OLEA LIB DC/DC, an addition to the Silicon Mobility OLEA FPCU, enables customers to design highly efficient DC/DC converters for hybrid and electric vehicles.
Electric and hybrid vehicle performance are mainly characterized by their energy usage efficiency. [Read more…] about New software from Silicon Mobility ‘drastically improves’ power flow and range of electric and hybrid vehicles
People buying new cars today in Germany and Europe are placing more and more value on having electronic assistants on board, says Bosch, based on analysis carried out on new registration statistics for 2016.
“There is a clear trend: it will soon be just as natural to have cars fitted with driver assistance systems as it is with a radio and ESP,” says Bosch board of management member Dr Dirk Hoheisel.
Parking and lane assist systems, as well as emergency braking systems are becoming increasingly popular, with 62 percent of new passenger cars registered in Germany in 2016 being equipped with some kind of parking assistance system – ranging from parking beepers to automatic parking assistants.
[Read more…] about Bosch analysis: Driver assistance systems continue their strong advance
Perrone Robotics says its new patent grant headlines recent company advancements, including a ground-breaking machine learning research collaboration, research and development on diverse hardware platforms
Perrone Robotics, a developer of autonomy and robotics, says it has made a number of advances toward the commercial development and deployment of its modular autonomy and robotics software platform, led by a new patent directed to autonomous car applications.
The company says its MAX robotics platform enables companies at “any stage to quickly design and build a broad range of robotic products and applications”.
The company was awarded a continuation of its earlier US patent (No. 9,195,233) that addresses the ability of its MAX platform to control a wide range of autonomous vehicles including robots, carts, shuttles, automobiles, trucks, aircraft, and watercraft. [Read more…] about Perrone Robotics granted new patent for modular autonomy platform
By Kate Riley, TechRogers.com
Though many of us might have heard about self-driving cars, the idea has mostly been restricted to daydreams and books and some movies.
However, all this is supposed to break into reality within the next few years, possibly months.
The entire world is waiting with bated breath as Google and others to put the finishing touches on their much talked about self-driving cars.
It certainly is a technological marvel and there are quite a few interesting technologies involved.
For example, self-driving cars have some of the best GPRS and navigation systems. This helps a lot in navigating the vehicles through tough and difficult terrain without running the risk of accidents and other mishaps.
They also come with some of the most advanced anti-collision devices which ensures that even when moving through heavy traffic, the vehicles would be in a position to come to a grinding halt or give way to other vehicles if it is travelling at a specified speed.
More of the technologies are listed below in the infographic.
Volvo Trucks says its “pioneering automation work” focuses on safety and the ongoing importance of professional drivers
The steady advancement of vehicle automation technologies creates exciting possibilities for the future of the transport industry and society as a whole.
Volvo Trucks has been at the forefront of this global evolution for well over two decades and believes automation will increasingly transform the way we live and work in the coming years.
The technological possibilities of tomorrow have intrigued and inspired us for generations. Today, technology moves faster than ever. Robots are taking over service industries. [Read more…] about Volvo Trucks shows off its ‘pioneering automation work’
ETH Zurich students are through to the next round of US entrepreneur Elon Musk’s SpaceX Hyperloop competition in Summer 2018 with their ‘Swissloop’ concept, against thousands of other teams.
Hyperloop is about moving pods through a vacuumed-sealed tube, transferring the tubular mail idea to passenger transport as a precursor to fast travel, and the competition is to design the best system.
The Hyperloop concept is based on vacuum technology: the vacuum tunnel massively reduces air resistance and thus enables smooth driving at speeds of up to 1,000 kilometers per hour.
[Read more…] about Swiss students through to finals of Elon Musk’s Hyperloop competition
Californians are famous for being laid back, going surfing, and… attacking robots?
In what is probably one of the weirdest stories to emerge so far this year, residents of California have reportedly been attacking driverless cars and other autonomous wheeled vehicles.
And no one really knows why.
They’ve been shouting out them, too, apparently. [Read more…] about Laid-back Californians totally lose it and go on the rampage, attacking driverless vehicles everywhere, apparently
Komatsu is celebrating the tenth anniversary of the commercial deployment of its Autonomous Haulage System (AHS).
More than 100 AHS trucks operate in Australia, North and South America and Komatsu plans to accelerate the pace of AHS deployment.
In 2005, Komatsu began the AHS trial at Codelco’s copper mine in Chile and succeeded in achieving the world’s first commercial AHS deployment with Codelco in January 2008.
[Read more…] about Komatsu reaches 10-year milestone in autonomous haulage
Toyota is establishing a new company to develop autonomous driving technologies and says it will invest almost $3 billion into it.
The new company will be based in Tokyo and will start operating later this month. It will be named “Toyota Research Institute-Advanced Development” (TRI-AD), and will accelerate the company’s efforts in “advanced development for automated driving”.
To enable the new efforts at TRI-AD, Toyota Motor Corporation, Aisin Seiki, and Denso have reached a provisional agreement on the joint development of fully-integrated, production-quality software for automated driving. [Read more…] about Toyota to invest $3 billion in driverless car company
