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Majority of employees would consider an electric car
A survey carried out by Fleet Evolution identified that well over 92% of respondents would consider an electric car but are nervous about relying on one for 365 days a year. The same survey found that the average commute driven was just 7.6 miles, with most employees covering around 200 miles a week and only venturing further a total of five weeks a year.
How driverless cars can have the capability to help the elderly
With the introduction of autonomous vehicles onto public roads in the near future, there’s no doubting that a shift in the automobile world is almost upon us. Google has already started tests with automated technology in real-world situations, while Tesla has been trialing its driverless Autopilot system within the UK. Lexus and Mercedes are a pair of big-name vehicle manufacturers to have revealed that they are working on technology for se...
A success story of agile transformation
Ahead of the Agile for Automotive Summit, taking place on 15th-17th May in Detroit, we sat down with two of the keynote speakers, Dave West, Product Owner and CEO of Scrum.org (a provider of training, assessments and certifications to improve the profession of software delivery), and Nigel Thurlow, Chief of Agile at Toyota Connected, to discuss the following:
Do power systems make the grade for autonomous vehicles?
Voltage and current levels will change, but the requirements for low EMI/EMC emissions will not, argues Tony Armstrong, Analog Devices.
Smart transport needs data sharing
The global autonomous vehicle market is expected to grow at a rate of almost40% from 2019 to 2026as at least46 companies, including the likes of Tesla and Alphabet, develop self-driving vehicles that willadd $7 trillionto the global economy. By:Dr Bryan Marshall, Head of IoT and AV Technology, Nominet.
Next generation transportation gets into gear
Over the course of the last year, Hardware Pioneers have managed to successfully cover a broad spectrum of compelling IoT-related subjects - going all the way from wearables and home automation, through to healthcare, industrial processing and smart cities. At the latest in their series of events, the focus was on what effect emerging technology will have on the future of transportation, with representatives from Digi International, Huawei and th...
What is driving the power electronics industry?
Enabling megatrends, the power electronics market has grown tremendously last year. Yole Développement (Yole) has discovered a $32.7bn power electronics market in 2017 in its report, ‘Status of the Power Electronics Industry’ published last summer.
SpaceX Hyperloop challenge gains victory by going 50% faster
Nicomatic has announced that the WARR Hyperloop Team from the Technische Universität of Munich (TUM) has won the 2018 SpaceX Hyperloop Pod competition by going almost 50% faster than in 2017, achieving a final speed of 467km/h. Nicomatic is the team’s only connector sponsor and Nicomatic’s micro-connectors contributed to this success by delivering reliable performance under challenging race conditions, while minimising space and ...
The future of EVs on show in Silicon Valley
Many new electric vehicles were on display at the IDTechEx Show on 14th-15th November in Santa Clara, California. However, that was the tip of the iceberg. The event had a hidden message - the future enabling technologies for electric vehicles (EVs), from buses to cars to mining vehicles.
Server offers high performance for enterprise-level AI
The release of the new G4760 4U 10xGPU server, from Equus Compute Solutions has been announced. It is well suited for artificial intelligence and deep learning environments and offers higher performance, reduced rack space requirements, and lower power consumption compared with traditional CPU-centric platforms, in a server package ideal for enterprise-level workloads.