Bosch Study Shows Benefits of Existing Tech
While the drive toward full autonomy for vehicles is seemingly picking up speed with announcements from companies with new LiDAR systems or the deployment of deep-learning AI systems in vehicles, and while Bosch is working hard in a number of areas to automate driving, here’s something that is striking that comes out of a study, […]
Breaking Away—Electrically
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Bugatti for the Rumpus Room
Obviously, when the price tag for the Bugatti Chiron is on the order of $2.6-million, chances are good that there aren’t going to be a whole lot of garages that have the supercar in their garages. So to, perhaps, address an unmet, unattainable need, Etienne Salome, head of Bugatti Interior Design, in consultation with Italian […]
Building Bikes
According to the folks at Sculpteo, a 3d printing and engineering services company based outside of Paris, they built what they describe as “the first ever fully functional bike created using digital manufacturing.†To prove that this is a real bike, not a booth exhibit, the two designers of the bike, Alexandre d’Orsetti and Piotr […]
Cadillac XT5 Defies Gravity
Yesterday we looked at Ford’s April sales. I am not going to run through every OEM for the next couple of weeks, but there is something that in and of itself is absolutely notable, which is the fact that Cadillac sales for the month of April have a + sign in front of them despite […]
Camaro and Hot Wheels Create a Real Car
Remember the Chevrolet Venture Looney Tunes edition from the early part of the last decade? While that may not have been the official name of the minivan that Chevy partnered with Warner Brothers on, there was Bugs Bunny badge on the car which, in retrospect, seems, well, looney. Fast forward to now and take a […]
Camaro ZL1: Eight Speeds Are Good. Ten Better.
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Auto Scores High in Satisfaction Index
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AWD as Needed from GKN
This is what the GKN Driveline all-wheel-drive (AWD) Disconnect system for small to medium-sized vehicles—it is a scalable architecture—looks like: The system is designed so that when a vehicle is in steady-state cruising the clutch system disengages the rear section of the driveline. As a result, rotational losses are minimized. This means that highway fuel […]
Back to Two Wheels for Mobility
Although the amount of attention on the development of autonomous vehicles is staggering given that there probably isn’t an outlet that hasn’t devoted time or space to the prospect of robotic vehicles, what people seem to have lost sight of are the facts that (1) initial applications are going to be in geo-fenced areas and […]
