Industry Insight

16th April 2018

IAV sees huge potential with 3D-printed pistons

Besides tires, few components on a vehicle take as much punishment as pistons in an internal-combustion engine. Constantly pumping at speeds up to 39 ft. (12 m) per second...

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16th April 2018

Weekly Brief: Uber Jump’s into entire transportation ecosystem

Uber prepares itself for an IPO with a broader focus on urban transportation. Andrew Tolve reports. It was a strange week for Uber. First, the ride-hailing giant reportedly spent...

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13th April 2018

Ford launches its ‘bridge’ to a driverless future

In recent years carmakers have become reluctant to claim that ‘this is the best car ever built’ in a consumer market much more sophisticated and informed than it was...

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13th April 2018

Driverless doesn’t mean an end to car insurance

It had to happen sooner or later and last December it did – a third-party insurance company announced that it would begin writing policies for self-driving cars. The company...

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9th April 2018

Weekly Brief: Real world driverless testing could be banned

ACM believes that we should test and validate self-driving tech before we unleash it on public roads. Andrew Tolve reports. In the wake of two fatal accidents in the...

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6th April 2018

Driverless, sooner rather than later?

It seems counter-intuitive, perhaps even scary. A number of people and organisations involved in the push towards autonomous driving have stated that the best way forward is to put...

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6th April 2018

Delivering safe connectivity beyond 5G

As connectivity technology improves, carmakers and their partners are busy exploring how the expected upsurge in data collected from future cars be managed and exploited. According to Dr Ben...

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6th April 2018

Future engineers take FIRST step into robotics

Charlie Ackerman’s approach to recruiting future engineers for automotive supplier Robert Bosch is similar to how Major League Baseball prepares its future stars. Boschsponsors farm teams for future talent....

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3rd April 2018

Siemens says new tool can speed autonomous-vehicle development

A new solution that combines simulation tools and on-board sensor-fusion technology could cut a significant amount of development time for autonomous vehicles and other advanced driver-assistance systems, Siemens says....

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3rd April 2018

Weekly Brief: BMW and Daimler merge their mobility companies

An unlikely shake-up on the mobility front comes amid another ominous week for self-driving tech. Andrew Tolve reports Mercedes-Benz and BMW have been the fiercest of rivals for more than...

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29th March 2018

Levelling the driverless playground dream

No technological path is straight and smooth and this is especially applicable to assisted and autonomous driving. Recent examples of missteps abound – the Uber death crash in Arizona,...

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29th March 2018

Lights, action and enjoy the driverless ride

BIS Automotive predicted in a report that the global in-vehicle entertainment market will reach a total market value of $52.2Bn ($37.6Bn) by 2022. The report, Global In-Vehicle Infotainment Market,...

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OEM Spotlight

3rd August 2023

BMW ‘Not Ready’ to Give Up on ICE

BMW is committed to continued investment in ICE powertrains despite its acceleration of development funds into BEV models. That’s because the...

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