Overview Of:
Automotive Electronics
Cars were once predominately valued in steel, glass, rubber, and aluminum. Now it’s silicon. Electronics developments drive the vehicles of today and tomorrow.
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Hella (hella.com) has been producing lighting products in Mexico far before many other suppliers took advantage of the comparative low cost of production there.
A family of intelligent acceleration sensors for front and side crash detection in advanced airbag systems has been developed by Freescale Semiconductors.
An image recognition processor able to recognize lanes, vehicles, stoplights, and pedestrians via a camera-based vision system has been developed by Toshiba America Electronic Components (TAEC). The Visconti2 processor can support up to four high-resolution color cameras.
Gary S. Vasilash
As vehicle manufacturers begin to focus on global products, small cars take on a new emphasis. And the 2012 Chevrolet Sonic is a new global car, one that is representative of GM’s new competitiveness.
General Motors and PSA?
Gary S. Vasilash
Apparently General Motors and PSA Peugeot Citroën are looking at some sort of agreement whereby the two will bolster their respective engineering and manufacturing activities.
About those Veloster Sales. . .
Gary S. Vasilash
Last week when we took at look at the Hyundai Veloster we observed that while we think the design is best in class, with “class” being almost anything on four wheels that ordinary people could afford without having to spend the rest of the time they’re making car payments eating kibble, Hyundai Motor America president and CEO John Krafcik chimed in and pointed out: “You can’t read anything into the sales results…we’re incredibly short of Velosters, with just a few per dealer right now. It remains the fastest turning Hyundai.” Given the meteoric sales rise across the Hyundai lineup, that’s pretty damn fast.
Design and Engineering and the Ford B-MAX
Gary S. Vasilash
The importance of the collaboration between designers and engineers is shown in the development of a door system for the Ford European market B-MAX compact car.
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