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Everlight SmartLEDs for Interior Lighting

Taiwan-based Everlight Electronics has released a new generation of lighting products for automotive interior applications. Everlight is a member of the open ISELED Alliance (28 members, including Hella, Valeo, Magna…), developing intelligent RGB LED technology for automotive interiors and providing innovative solutions for automotive lighting. The new Everlight SmartLEDs are configured to present colorful combinations…

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Veoneer Awarded for AV Thermal Camera

Veoneer CEO Jan Carlson is calling it a breakthrough: his company has won a production contract to manufacture a thermal camera for an autonomous vehicle made by an as-yet-unnamed major automaker. Veoneer’s products include radars, vision systems, and advanced driver assistance and autonomous driving software. Thermal cameras are well-suited for nighttime driving, and can see…

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Yanfeng Sanitizes Interior Air with Wellness Pod

Shared vehicles’ interior cleanliness is legitimately questionable from a hygiene standpoint. It’s just a simple fact of multiple users, just like in any mass transportation vehicle. Moreover, IAQ (interior air quality) is an issue especially in polluted places like China. Yanfeng Automotive Interiors, a JV with Adient, has a solution. Last month, the company debuted…

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New Hyundai Mobis Passenger Safety Tech

Hyundai Mobis, the parts-and-service arm of Hyundai Motors, has developed a new safety technology for protecting passengers through interworking with the autonomous driving sensors. It’s called the Safety Integrated Control Module, and it combines two ECUs for airbags and electronic seatbelts into a single unit. It receives real-time data from advanced radar sensors enabling enhanced…

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Renault’s New China-Market EV

Renault needs new products to rescue their sales in China, which plunged 64 percent in the first eight months. To that end, they launched their first China-built electric vehicle, the K-ZE, at an auto show last month in the southern Chinese city of Chengdu. The small SUV targets urban commuters. According to Dongfeng-Renault, after government…

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Canoo’s Urban Loft on Wheels

California-based Canoo, founded by some former Faraday Future engineers in 2017, has created a vehicle for a future that’s electric, shared, and autonomous. The company is headed by Ulrich Kranz, the former head of BMW i. Canoo’s vehicle is described as “an urban loft on wheels,” with interior appointments designed to look more like furniture:…

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IAA, the Frankfurt Motor Show 2019

Wrapping up our DVN-I coverage of the Frankfurt Motor Show, we will focus on two major new vehicle launches: the Volkswagen ID.3 and the Land Rover Defender. Both of these vehicles represent significant milestones and significant risk for their manufacturers moving in a new direction. The challenge of redefining such an iconic vehicle as the…

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Aptiv, Hyundai in AV JV

Aptiv (formerly Delphi Automotive) and Hyundai are forming an autonomous driving joint venture to advance the design, development, and commercialization of level-4 and -5 autonomous technologies, furthering the partners’ leadership position in the global self-driving ecosystem. The two companies will begin testing fully driverless systems in 2020, and plan to have a production-ready autonomous driving…

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First AV experiment in NYC

In the US, most of the autonomous vehicle services are finding their footing in places like Silicon Valley or Phoenix. So far, they’ve been scarce in New York, where state regulations aren’t as facilitative. Behind the line, it’s maybe easy to understand that the local environment is not appropriate for early validation: traffic conditions are…

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Robotaxis Still A Ways Away: Argo CEO

In a recent interview with Automotive News, Argo CEO Bryan Salesky said mass transport with autonomous vehicles and robotaxis is still far away. Ford Argo test vehicle Designer view of a Ford AV with HUD and no wheel Argo AI, funded in 2016, is a Pittsburgh-based autonomous vehicle startup in which Ford invested a billion…

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