News tagged with automotive software

INL software helps improve performance of the world's largest automotive vehicle fleet

If you owned a fleet of 650,000-plus vehicles that are driven some 5 billion miles a year and use the equivalent of 390 million gallons of gasoline, how would you keep track of them all?

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 16, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Giving new meaning to 'smart car'

(PhysOrg.com) -- McMaster and IBM have launched a research project to investigate how the automotive industry can connect a vehicle's multiple microprocessors, which currently work in isolation, to create ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 17, 2010 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

High-tech speed bump detects damage to army vehicles

Researchers have developed a technology that detects damage to critical suspension components in military vehicles simply by driving over a speed bumplike "diagnostic cleat" containing sensors.

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Download, install and drive -- the future of automotive software

(PhysOrg.com) -- Computers, mobile phones and other electronic devices regularly download software updates to keep obsolescence at bay. That’s not the norm for cars. But that could change thanks to an automotive ...

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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MIT biologist relishes the challenge of picking apart the cell's most complex structure

One of the most important structures in a cell is the nuclear pore complex — a tiny yet complicated channel through which information flows in and out of the cell’s nucleus, directing all other cell ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 22, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Google in talks with insurers about self-driving car

A leader of Google Inc.'s driverless car project said Wednesday that the company is in discussions with major auto insurance companies about the implications of integrating its technology into real-world vehicles.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 10

Engineering a safer world

Innovations in software and technology are creating increasingly complex systems: cars that park themselves; medical devices that automatically deliver drugs; and smartphones with the computing power of desktop ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Futuristic cars are coming faster than you think

Cars that drive themselves are not just the stuff of sci-fi movies. The technology is real, the cars can now drive legally and the debate is starting on whether society is better off when software is behind the wheel.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Apr 13, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (30) | comments 26

'Labor der Zukunft' - Tomorrow's laboratory technology

Biomedical laboratories have to be safe, ergonomic and flexible. At the same time, labs need to be able to deal with a high throughput of samples while reliably documenting each step in the testing process. ...

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 29, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Internet service prevents cable tangle in presentations at conferences

To connect a laptop to an additional monitor, projector or even to a monitor wall, a special cable was required, until now. Researchers of the Saarland University's Intel Visual Computing Institute overcome ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

HP has open-source vision for 'orphan' webOS

The future of webOS - the innovative mobile software that three successive CEOs at Hewlett-Packard have struggled to make into a profitable product - may lie somewhere in the windowless rooms of a Stanford Medical School ...

Technology / Software

created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Robot reconnoiters uncharted terrain

Mobile robots have many uses. They serve as cleaners, carry out inspections and search for survivors of disasters. But often, there is no map to guide them through unknown territory. Researchers have now developed ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Better turbine simulation software to yield better engines

For most of us, the word "turbomachinery" may conjure up images of superheroes or fast exotic cars, but in reality most people leverage turbomachinery to get things done nearly every day.

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

NXP develops automotive ethernet transceivers for in-vehicle networks

NXP Semiconductors N.V. today announced its engagement in automotive Ethernet as the first automotive semiconductor supplier to license Broadcom’s BroadR-Reach Ethernet technology for in-vehicle networking. ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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