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Are autonomous vehicles safer than human drivers?

yoSoyTono

Autonomous Vehicles are driving towards zero accidents: being involved in fewer crashes, getting less injuries, and possibly saving lives. However, most comparisons between driverless vehicles and human drivers have been uneven... and maybe unfair.&n...
- 18 Jul 2018
Will self-driving vehicles keep getting better?

yoSoyTono

Artificial Intelligence (AI) experts are fixing their expectations about the availability of autonomous vehicles and how it might take several years before self-driving systems can genuinely avoid accidents. Full autonomy seems closer than ever as th...
- 12 Jul 2018
It is all about self-driving reliability

yoSoyTono

Technology development for Autonomous Vehicles is moving from functionality to performance to reliability. However, current self-driving cars and trucks need to reach stringent safety and security levels before going broad, as strict reliability stan...
- 4 Jul 2018
Ranking the reliability of autonomous vehicles

yoSoyTono

The Autonomous Vehicle Disengagement Reports from the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) are closely watched around the self-driving world for the considerable number of companies testing their autonomous vehicles on Californian public roa...
- 30 May 2018
Car makers are betting on self-driving technologies

yoSoyTono

Even when fully autonomous driving will take some years to emerge, almost every car maker in the world is currently betting on self-driving technologies. Those companies are investing billions of dollars, making aggressive acquisitions, and managing ...
- 30 May 2018
Automotive tech is guaranteeing Functional Safety

yoSoyTono

Over the past decade, the automobile industry has been operating under the influence of four megatrends, integrating advances in electronic component design and improving circuit performance to enhance the driving experience: safety, reliability, eff...
- 16 May 2018
The automotive industry is far from declining

yoSoyTono

Most industry experts agree that Diverse Mobility, Autonomous-Driving, Electrification, and Connectivity disruptive trends will accelerate one another and also shift the whole automotive sector. Those technology-driven trends will change the way on h...
- 2 May 2018
5G gives an opportunity for Autonomous Vehicles

yoSoyTono

Vehicles are becoming powerful high-functional computers on wheels, equipped with sophisticated technologies: ADAS or GPS systems to support drivers, HD cameras for Vision processing, Radar or Lidar sensors for surrounding mapping, and more.Several a...
- 27 Mar 2018
Autonomous Trucks could help with the driver shortage

yoSoyTono

Autonomous trucks are not replacing truck drivers; they are altering the driving job. Just after the self-driving trucks were introduced, a debate started over whether the technology will put truckers out of work or help to solve a labor shortage as ...
- 30 Jan 2018
The democratization of radar systems

yoSoyTono

Both safety and security technologies for autonomous driving have evolved in the past years, nowadays active and predictive systems are being implemented on a large scale across the automotive industry. As no single technology is sufficient to meet a...
- 11 Jan 2018
Automotive Technology Trends in CES 2018

yoSoyTono

Since the past decade, technology is playing a pivotal role in the automotive industry; its future has shifted and juxtaposed elements that were not supposed to be linked together: autonomy & infotainment with engines & suspensions, or Artifi...
- 5 Jan 2018
What 2018 will drive us?

yoSoyTono

The past year was an exciting year for automotive technologies. While 2016 had significant announcements and concepts, 2017 paved the road for future mobility by implementing most of those innovations. Car Makers, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OE...
- 4 Jan 2018
Powering European e-Call

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European e-Call System.The European commission will implement the automatic emergency call system e-Call by the beginning of 2018. This emergency system provides information about position of the car, extend of damage and allows the insured pers...
- 3 Jan 2018
The Autonomous Trucks "platooning"

yoSoyTono

Trucking around the world will be radically transformed in the next years as the autonomous trucks "platooning" is now a reality. Companies are enabling safe cross-country travel of long convoys of these big juggernauts that resemble slower and large...
- 8 Dec 2017
Autonomous trucks are not replacing truck drivers

yoSoyTono

Numerous trailers, eighteen-wheelers, and buses provided with self-driving technologies will be riding highways in the next few years. Engineers expect autonomous trucks are going to be safer and less costly, but they are cautious as the technical ch...
- 6 Dec 2017
Do not be afraid of Autonomous Vehicles

yoSoyTono

Even when Autonomous Cars are becoming a popular term, the public is still afraid of them: three out of four US drivers are scared to ride vehicles which drive themselves according to the American Automobile Association (AAA), and only one in five wi...
- 28 Nov 2017
The performance bar for RADAR applications has been raised

yoSoyTono

Car Makers, along with Industry and Government, are adding Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems (ADAS) to the new vehicles to comply with stringent regulations, improve road safety by avoiding accidents, and provide more security, comfort, and efficien...
- 12 Oct 2017
Are you Interested in Writing Review of a CAN Bus Analyser?

rscasny

Do you have CAN Bus experience? Would you be interesting in receiving a Can Bus Analyser in the mail and all you need to do is write a product review and post it on element14? Read the following to learn more: The AP...
- 5 Oct 2017
AUTOSAR: Cooperate on standards, compete on implementation.

yoSoyTono

The amount of software that new cars out of the driveway need is stunning! A premium car has up to 3,000 singular software-related functions with at least 100 million lines of code running on dozens of microprocessors. As the use of automotive embedd...
- 7 Jul 2017
Hercules microcontrollers, DMA and Memory Cache

Jan Cumps

DMA and memory cache don't always play nicely together.I had an issue when trying to use serial communication and DMA on a TI Hercules controller. The DMA data wasn't appearing in my read buffers.TI's application specialists helped me to ...
- 2 Jan 2016
Engineering a Connected World: Connected Cars and the Future of Automotive

JenCooke

Earlier this year we released some insightful research about the future of internet connected technology in a report called Engineering a Connected World, based on a survey of 3,500 consumers across the globe. While the report makes for interest...
- 9 Dec 2015
The Tipping Point in Automobiles Has Arrived

bluescreen

I've been thinking about the Volkswagen scandal a lot lately. In September, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) determined that VW had clandestinely inserted software into many of its diesel vehicles to determine when it was connected to...
- 10 Nov 2015
Monaco Grand Prix and electronics: how things have evolved

MAb

“New Cars, Timeless Track”Cutting-edge technology meets the enduring past in Monaco’s classic race Do you want to measure how much technology has brought to F1 Grand Prix? Here is a special report from Brad Spurgeon published in The New York Ti...
- 4 Jun 2014
Freescale Collaborates with Neusoft and Green Hills Software to Deliver Development Ecosystem for ADAS Vision Applications

MAb

Freescale Semiconductor is collaborating with Neusoft Corporation and Green Hills Software to establish a comprehensive Advanced Driver Assistance Systems ecosystem designed to dramatically speed and simplify the creation of next-generation automotiv...
- 26 May 2014
[video]: Predictive Safety with Qorivva MCU and MC33907/8 System Basis Chip

MAb

Explore this SafeAssure solution for ASIL D applications. This highly optimized Qorivva MCU and system basis chip (SBC) solution offers independent fail-safe monitoring for power management. It also features MCU external assessment of SBC architectur...
- 19 May 2014