Robosense Lidar Helps Fight Virus Spread in China
In the middle of the coronavirus outbreak, there is a shortage of frontline staff and a high risk of cross infection caused by people’s close interactions. To reduce the high…
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Reducing driver distraction with vehicle activated signs
When drivers are distracted, they can miss what is right in front of them. But a kind of opposite is also true: intense focus on one thing makes people more…
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Road Safety Award For Valeo
Valeo have received the 2020 Road Safety Innovation Award in the “Preventing the consequences of an accident” category, for their Valeo Rescuer™ product. As from 2018, all new vehicle platforms approved for sale in Europe must be fitted…
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Renault, Nissan Strategy on Track Despite Corona Crisis
Renault and their alliance partner Nissan have the resources to weather the coronavirus crisis and will roll out strategic plans as scheduled in mid-May, the automakers’ top executives are saying.…
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Economist Predicts Auto-Sales Recession
New and used auto sales are headed for a recession in 2020, thanks to stay-home orders aimed at stopping the spread of COVID-19. Cox Automotive’s chief economist Jonathan Smoke predicts…
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Matha’s Thoughts On Our Industry In These Strange Times
This ongoing pandemic really makes life strange for everyone, especially for our automotive industry. Because what has the existence of the automotive industry represented for over a hundred years? instinctively…
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Fourth Week At Home…And Counting…
North Americans and most of us in Europe, except our Swedish colleagues, are now in our fourth week of home confinement. I am regularly talking with several of you, and…
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Automatic Lights Now Required In Japan
In October of 2016 the Japanese Ministry of Transport started the clock toward the day when automakers would start being required to equip all new vehicles with automatic headlamps. And…
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Lighting Enables New Car Functions
In the ElectroOptics March 2020 monthly edition, Matthew Dale explains in three pages, to the photonic comminuty, how high-resolution LED matrices and blue lasers increase the functionality of automotive lighting. He…
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Darpa’s Invisible-Headlights Program
In military applications, headlights allow adversaries to detect a vehicle’s presence, in some cases from long distances away. Darpa—the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, who first devised the internet—are…
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