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SAE International, Ford, General Motors, and Toyota form Automated Vehicle Safety Consortium

2019-04-04

SAE International is partnering with Ford, General Motors (GM), and Toyota to form the Automated Vehicle Safety Consortium (AVSC), which will work to help safely advance the testing, precompetitive development, and deployment of SAE Level 4 and 5 automated vehicles. The AVSC will provide a safety framework around which autonomous technology can responsibly evolve in advance of broad deployment, ultimately helping to inform and accelerate the development of industry standards for autonomous vehicles (AVs) and harmonize with efforts of other consortia and standards bodies. 

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OneWeb ramps up satellite production with new round of funding

2019-03-21

OneWeb has secured $1.25 billion in its latest funding round. The company, which seeks to deploy a satellite communication network by 2021 that will enable global high-speed, low-latency Internet access, has now raised a total of $3.4 billion to fund its mission. Tokyo-based Softbank Group Corp., Mexico’s Grupos Salinas, San Deigo-based Qualcomm Technologies Inc., and the Government of Rwanda led the last round of funding.

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Media Registration Open for SAE International’s WCX World Congress Experience in Detroit

2019-04-05

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New automotive radars take tech from a blip to a boom

2019-03-21

Automotive radar rides the 77-GHz technology wave toward greater capability and vehicle safety.

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Ford demos digital manufacturing tools

2019-03-26

Leveraging expansive networking and traceability, Ford has transformed its manufacturing spaces with data wellsprings that drive quality and productivity.

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Wear-resistant pumps

2016-05-18

Duechting Pumpen’s WRX single-stage centrifugal pumps were developed for the transportation of abrasive materials and are suited for use in dredgers and other applications in the mining and processing of gravel and sand.

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Auto A/C expansion valves move to electronic control

2016-04-25

A maker of expansion valves has demonstrated a significant reduction in A/C compressor workload, benefiting vehicle energy use, by going electronic.

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Abaco’s FORCE2 flight computer enables national and international ground control station certification

2019-04-24

Earlier this month, General Atomics Aeronautical System, Inc. (GA-ASI) completed an entire MQ-9B SkyGuardian remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) flight – from takeoff to landing – using a GA-ASI certifiable ground control station (CGCS). At the core of the CGCS is Abaco Systems Inc.’s (Abaco’s) certifiable FORCE2 Open Reference Computing Environment.

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Federal lab cost-effectively eliminates diesel idling to condition Class 8 sleeper cabs

2016-05-12

National Renewal Energy Laboratory tests use of insulation and other techniques to reduce A/C cooling and heating loads by more than 30%. Savings for cooling alone estimated at 774 gal/yr of diesel fuel compared with overnight idling.

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SAE International Defines Electrified Aircraft Voltage Levels and Wiring Impacts with Two New Aerospace Information Reports

2021-04-08

New Documents Focus on the Aerospace Industry’s Demand for High-Voltage Design Recommendations and Guidelines

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Neste advances renewable diesel

2021-01-18

Neste advances renewable diesel

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An X-plane for everyone?

2016-06-21

As part of a recently announced initiative, NASA is in the midst of researching a number of strategic projects that include quiet supersonic flight, electric distributed propulsion, and hybrid wing aircraft, with goals that include demonstrating advanced technologies to reduce fuel use, emissions and noise, and accelerate possible introduction to the marketplace.

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SAE Eye on Engineering Quick Take: Stealing engineering talent

2016-05-16

Stealing engineering talent has always been part of the competition in the auto world. In this episode of SAE Eye on Engineering, Editor-In-Chief Lindsay Brooke looks at the ongoing issue of retaining talent in the car business.

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Nuance emotion detection

2019-03-21

Nuance emotion detection

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Ford and University of Michigan team up on first-ever sustainability study of urban air mobility

2019-04-23

According to a new study published in Nature Communications, electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) urban air mobility (UAM) vehicles – commonly referred to as “flying cars” – are better suited to longer flights than shorter commutes.

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Send in Yamaguchi!

2016-04-25

Jack Yamaguchi, SAE's veteran Japan Editor, is considered the “dean” of Japan’s automotive journalists. Over a career spanning 50 years, Jack has conducted hundreds of interviews with engineering leaders including the new President of Honda R&D in the May issue.

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The future of better drones is for the birds

2016-05-31

Stanford engineering professor David Lentink plans to use a new wind tunnel to learn the magic of bird flight and apply it to building better aerial robots.

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Automotive cybersecurity needs serious work

2021-02-26

Automotive cybersecurity needs serious work

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Heat pump technology an EV game changer

2021-03-23

Heat pump technology an EV game changer

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Automated Vehicle Safety Consortium Publishes First Industry-Led Guidance for Measuring ADS Safety Performance Metrics

2021-03-25

Sixth best practice gives developers and manufacturers a common method for assessing ADS safety performance metrics