Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. today announced that the Nissan Teana received the 2014-2015 Japan New Car Assessment Program (JNCAP) Five Star Award, the highest rating in JNCAP's new overall safety performance evaluation. The Japan New Car ...
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TriLumina Corp of Albuquerque, NM, USA, which provides illumination solutions based on vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) arrays for automotive laser radar (LiDAR) and sensing platforms, has closed an $8.5m Series A round of ...
Automotive suppliers will quality check more than 300 million airbag-inflator systems using sophisticated helium- and hydrogen-based leak-detection technology in 2015. Frontal airbags have reduced fatalities in frontal crashes by up to 25 ...
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GW Plastics Vermont-based manufacturing company works to boost local economy and introduce students to world of manufacturing BETHEL, VT. (September 1, 2014) – GW Plastics is pleased to announce the graduation of their first summer ...
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Wellspring Capital Management today announced that it has acquired Qualitor, a leading global supplier of branded aftermarket safety and wear products for the automotive aftermarket, from an affiliate of HCI Equity Partners. Financial terms ...
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Autoliv, the world-wide leader in automotive safety, today announced a new operating structure in order to more effectively manage its business operations. During the last five years Autoliv has grown significantly. The new operating ...
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American automotive supplier TRW Automotive Holdings (TRW) has opened its largest ever Technical Center in Anting, China. The new 66,000m2 facility has been designed and built to house over 20 scientific testing labs that complement the ...
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Software platforms provider QNX Software Systems, a subsidiary of BlackBerry has launched a new operating system (OS), the QNX OS for Automotive Safety 1.0. The new OS, which is built on the QNX technology, is said to address growing ...
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To facilitate growing demands for virtual crash test data, Ford is increasing its investment in computing power an additional 50 percent this year. The technology investment will allow Ford to more quickly conduct virtual crash tests - ...
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Michelin displayed this drawing of the features of the Premier A/S at its official launch of the tire at the North American International Auto Show. Michelin North America Inc. introduced the Michelin Premier A/S tire with new EverGrip ...
Swedish automobile manufacturer Volvo Car Group has signed a new strategic agreement with the China Automotive Technology and Research Center (CATARC) in Tianjin, China. The agreement was signed by Volvo Car China operations senior vice ...
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Japanese automaker Toyota Motors has agreed to pay its vehicle owners $1.6bn to settle a lawsuit over sudden unintended acceleration (SUA) reports in 2009 and 2010, which allegedly caused their vehicles to lose value. The settlement, ...
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Global industrial machine vision sales to hit $2bn by 2018 27 Jun 2013 Analyst Yole Développement publishes new MV technology and market forecast, identifying nine key market types. Yole Développement, Lyon, France, has ...
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Serial-drive Pixel Light implementations can lead to streamlined, modular control solutions for AFS systems, leading to greatly enhanced night-time driving safety. Only 25% of travel by car takes place in the hours of darkness, yet over ...
Electronic safety systems like forward collision and lane departure warnings are a welcome advancement in automotive safety, and are becoming increasingly more common on new cars. That's a trend we'd like to see continue, because we think ...