South Korea based vehicle manufacturer Ssangyong Motor has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Korea Automotive Technology Institute (KATECH) to cooperate in development of a self-driving car. Under the deal, both ...
American chip maker Intel has launched a family of hardware and software products for automotive industry called 'Intel In-Vehicle Solutions', which will smarten up the next generation cars. Intel In-Vehicle Solutions include a ...
Tags: Intel, Smarten up Cars
Google has moved ahead with the self-driving car project with introduction of the new completely self-driving car prototype in the US. The new car does not have a steering wheel, accelerator pedal, or brake pedal as it is completely ...
Tags: Self-Driving Car, Google
Japan’s TDK will establish a product development base in California’s Silicon Valley that will focus on next-generation electronics parts. The center will be ready during the current fiscal year, which ends next March. TDK ...
Tags: TDK, Electronic Parts
The press conference of the first China (Fangshan) Automobile Culture Expo press conference was held in Fangshan Beijing. The first China (Fangshan) Automobile Culture Expo was guided by the scientific development concept, with the theme of ...
Tags: Automobile, Culture Expo
Volvo has been testing the efficacy of magnets to keep self-driving cars moving safely on the road. The idea is for magnets to help the cars identify where they need to be in lanes. The Volvo Car Group tested how well the road magnets in ...
Tags: Auto, technology, GPS positioning
Swedish automobile manufacturer Volvo Car Group has completed a research which uses magnets to help the self-driving car determine its position. Conducted in a strategic co-operation with the Swedish Transport Administration, the project ...
In a rare public speech, Google Inc. CEO Larry Page once suggested the tech industry needs "safe places where we can try out new things" without rules or interference. Some people thought he was describing a futuristic fantasy, perhaps a ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Google X, Google
Ford's first autonomous research vehicles, with protruding sensors and instruments, “kind of look[ed] like a science project” says Chris Attard, a Ford research engineer who works on their replacement. The new one, a Ford Fusion ...
Tags: Autonomous Research Car, protruding sensors and instruments, LIDAR
Faulty software in Toyota's popular Prius hybrids has forced the Japanese automaker to recall 1.9 million of such vehicles worldwide. The huge recall—representing more than half of all Prius cars ever sold—shows how Toyota has ...
Tags: Toyota, Software Flaw, Prius software
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHSTA) will soon propose rules for vehicle to vehicle (V2V) communications on U.S. roads, it announced yesterday. The agency is now finalizing a report on a 2012 trial with almost 3000 ...
Tags: Vehicle-to-Vehicle, Communications
Ford Motor Co. said Wednesday it was teaming up with researchers at two US universities to work on obstacles, technical and otherwise, to automated driving. "To deliver on our vision for the future of mobility, we need to work with many ...
Tags: Autonomous Cars, Cars, Transportation, Ford
Google recently sent several of its employees to meet with staff from FDA’s medical device branch. Bloomberg speculates that the new product could be tied to biosensors. The employees in question hail from the company’s Google ...
Tags: Medical Device, Google
This story appears in the December 2013/January 2014 issue of iTECH, published in the Dec. 16 print edition of Transport Topics. Click here to subscribe today. A new "blue paper" by the research department of investment bank Morgan ...
Tags: Trucking, Trucking News, Driverless Vehicles
Here are some of the highlights and trends seen at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, which ended Friday: 1. Wearables: From connected socks and bras to baby clothing, wearable technology with the ability to transform ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics, Automobiles, Smartphones, Smart homes