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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]