Ford Targets 2021 for Autonomous Vehicles
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Ford targets 2021 for September 2016 dependent and begin to drive and react to traffic From connected cars to connected bikes IN THIS on their own, autonomous autonomous vehicles ISSUE systems will aggregate and process data from a Ford plans to have a high- president and CEO. “We have a strategic ad - Page 2: Centralised variety of on-board sen - volume, fully au - The four start-ups are vantage because of our platforms for adas sors and connected infra - tonomous SAE level- lidar sensor company ability to combine the structure. This forces the four-capable vehicle in Velodyne, Israel-based software and sensing Page 3: Nissan fits industry to hit a hard reset commercial operation in computer vision and ma - technology with sophisti - 200 cars in case on adas architectures, 2021 in a ride-hailing or chine learning company cated engineering,” said currently dominated by ride-sharing service. Saips, machine vision Raj Nair, Ford executive Page 5: ZF buys distributed processing The firm is investing in firm Nirenberg Neuro - vice president. Ibeo lidar tech and smart sensors. or collaborating with four science and 3D mapping This year, Ford will ABI forecasts that 13 start-ups, doubling its Sil - experts Civil Maps. triple its autonomous ve - Page 8: EMBC million vehicles with cen - icon Valley team and Building on more than a hicle test fleet, bringing benchmark suite tralised adas platforms more than doubling its decade of autonomous the number to about 30 will ship in 2025. Palo Alto campus. vehicle research, Ford’s self-driving Fusion Hy - Page 10: Delphi “The distributed ap - “The next decade will first autonomous vehicle brid sedans on the roads autonomous test proach to adas will prove be defined by automation will be an SAE level- in California, Arizona and in Singapore unsustainable as OEMs of the automobile, and we four-capable vehicle Michigan, and there are look to deliver highly au - see autonomous vehicles without a steering wheel, plans to triple it again tomated driving around Forget smart connected cars, a San Francisco company has developed a Page 11: Automotive smart bicycle. Volata Cycles built the $3500 bike, which is equipped with a as having as significant accelerator or brake ped - next year. radar measurements 2020,” said James Hodg - an impact on society as als. It is being designed Ford also is expanding son, industry analyst at 6.1cm app-based embedded computer that seamlessly integrates into the Ford’s moving assembly for commercial mobility its Silicon Valley opera - ABI Research. “The new handlebar, allowing access to information such as performance, weather Page 16: Mobility forecast, turn-by-turn directions, heart rate and smartphone notification. line did 100 years ago,” services, such as ride tions, creating a dedicated and EMC testing centralised adas architec - said Mark Fields, Ford sharing and ride hailing. campus in Palo Alto. tures will unify sensing, The safety features include an integrated horn that creates awareness of cy - Adding two new build - processing and actuation clists in traffic, while the automated front and rear lights ensure visibility Page 19: Removing throughout the day. ings and 14,000 square test lab clutter to deliver integrated deci - metres of work and lab sion-making for smooth A GPS-based anti theft system including a motion detector informs the space next to the current path planning and effec - owner if anyone tries to steal the bike. A front-hub dynamo automatically Page 23: Range charges the internal battery, providing the cyclist with the luxury of never research and innovation Rover in focus tive collision avoidance.” centre, the expanded This transition should worrying about recharging. campus supports plans to present major opportuni - “We knew we had to push the limits of design and performance, intro - Page 27: Product ducing native technology into the bicycle, and we wrapped it up in a stylish double the size of the news ties for vendors new to Palo Alto team by the end the industry, as well as Italian design,” said Marco Salvioli, CEO of Volata. “As cars have evolved, Ford plans fully autonomous vehicles by 2021 also bikes need to evolve.” of 2017. Page 32: Contact old incumbents, including details NVidia, NXP and Mobil - vehicle-electronics.biz Vehicle Electronics September 2016, Page 2 NEWS NEWS crossovers will work in Nissan engineer fits harmony with the rest of Link turns to Qt for interface the car and provide the functionality that drivers Link Motion is to use Qt with Qt continues even 200 cars in briefcase require. to create an automotive tighter now after the first Following table-top val - computer platform. Fol - successful project.” A Nissan engineer has de - scanners at airports. electrical features, such as idation using the brief - lowing a pilot project, the Link chose to use Qt be - veloped a way to share “I travel to many meet - the driver assistance and case, the set-up is built as company has extended cause of its ecosystem advanced technologies ings with colleagues Safety Shield technolo - a larger-scale prototype the use of Qt in the devel - support, tool chain and with colleagues abroad. around the world, where gies.” and rigorously tested to opment of an integrated ability to create high per - He imagined a mobile we share ideas,” said The briefcase helps to ensure a high-quality cus - automotive computer that formance (60frame/s) in - technical centre, built it at Banks, an electrical engi - prove that electrical sys - tomer experience. Only includes infotainment and terfaces rapidly. home in his spare time neer from Nissan’s Euro - tems and software for then is it approved for in - instrument clusters. Link’s automotive computer platform “Tier-ones and OEMs and fitted into an easy-to- pean Technical Centre in next-generation Nissan clusion in a future model. The computer supports developing in-vehicle carry briefcase. Cranfield, UK. “The issue multiple displays, includ - provide opportunities for Jouni Mikkonen, CEO of systems for regular fam - The idea was the brain - is always demonstrating Panasonic buys ing central unit, cluster a better user experience Link Motion. “Thanks to ily cars, to electric vehi - child of Martin Banks, the systems we have de - and HUD for a wide and flexible customisa - its graphical capabilities, cles, sports cars and super and it is now being used veloped when I’m away range of automotive cus - tion for each customer we are able to render vi - cars are turning to Qt to to develop the next gen- from my desk, so I de - OpenSynergy for tomers. It was designed project. sually impressive, high- set the industry standard eration of Nissan’s cided to create my own with security built in. “Qt is a great choice for performance, hardware for automotive cockpit crossovers – the Qashqai, solution.” cockpit software Using Qt technology in us in building an excel - accelerated graphics on development,” said Tero Juke and X-Trail. He did most of the de - the development of the lent and customisable two or three screens at Marjamäki, head of auto - To the untrained eye the sign and development of Panasonic has acquired Bluetooth stack to car user interface is said to user experience,” said once. Our cooperation motive at Qt. briefcase looks low-tech, his briefcase at home and the outstanding shares of makers and tier-one sup - with its simple switches in his spare time, even German company Open - pliers. It will continue to and LED lights. But this making his own PCBs so Synergy, a specialist in operate the business as an box of tricks – small they performed exactly as embedded automotive independent company enough to be transported he wanted. software for cockpits. under the new ownership. as aeroplane cabin lug - “It looks very rudimen - OpenSynergy’s soft - “OpenSynergy’s mis - gage – can replicate the tary, but the LEDs show ware enables different op - sion has been to bring in - entire electrical architec - me if the circuits are erating systems to be used novative software to the ture of up to 200 different working properly,” he in one system, making it automotive industry and Nissan model and trim said. “This simple frame - possible to integrate mul - to enable the develop - combinations. Banks’ work can test the in-car timedia and driver sup - ment of the next genera - biggest problem now is integration of some of port functions. tion of highly integrated getting past the security Nissan’s most advanced “Through making vehicle systems, embrac - OpenSynergy our sub - ing the specific safety and sidiary, we will realise a security challenges of the next-generation inte - vehicle environment,” grated cockpit and make said Stefaan Sonck a great step towards inte - Thiebaut, co-CEO of grating cockpit system OpenSynergy. and adas with a firm eye His fellow co-CEO on autonomous driving in Rolf Morich added: the future,” said Hirotoshi “Under its new owner - Uehara, executive officer ship, OpenSynergy will at Panasonic.