What if in the near future cars could look for their spaces in a parking garage and return all by themselves by using a smartphone app? This is the goal of a joint pilot project, started by Bosch, …

Source: safecarnews.com

Clearly an automakers fantasy, but will it convince you to buy a new car that parks for you? Or will you wait for the next version that takes you back and forth to work by itself?

During the process the driver must watch out for any obstacles and bring the vehicle to a controlled stop if necessary. When the remote controlled parking system is to be activated, the vehicle must be positioned straight and centrically in front of the chosen parking space.

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For the 7-series owners, this feature could pay for itself in savings of those pesky valet driver tips! I’ll bet they will be impressed and depressed at the same time when you pull up in your 740 sometime next year.

Be sure to download your copy.

Source: safecarnews.com

A great Infographic shows the relationship with railway, automotive, industrial and medical device safety systems as defined by the standards. QNX has a certified platform now.

Renesas has succeeded in reducing the latency time to less than 1 msec, which is equivalent to a movement distance of 2.8 cm when driving at 100 km/h. This enables nearly real-time data transfer, allowing use in driver safety assist systems and making it possible to switch from the current LVDS system to Ethernet.

Source: safecarnews.com

Continuing to push for a single network in the car, compression advancements not expected previously will make it possible. Just like the popular Internet, the car will run on standards including innovation.

According to Continental Japan, no automatic emergency braking system capable of detecting objects located to the rear side has been commercialized. So, its system might become the world’s first such system.

Source: safecarnews.com

Cameras are amazing when placed in a 3D surround view setting. This use case is quite salable in the US where parallel and tight space parking is not well understood by many.

“The Renesas R-Car SoC platform provides built-in Ethernet AVB technology. By incorporating this platform we expect the HARMAN Ethernet AVB solution to bring further innovation for in-vehicle infotainment networks.”

Source: www.symphonyteleca.com

Why buy an external component for ethernet AVB in the car? This is the standard OPEN solution with automotive grade hardware and software. Ethernet has the potential to become the single network backbone for cars of the future (just like the internet).

Every 17 seconds, a driver on a U.S. road gets hit from behind. In fact, a third of all car crashes are rear-end collisions.

Source: www.latimes.com

Car safety progress by 10 car OEMs, touché! This will be great for the industry AND the consumers in cars. How about an insurance rebate if you have this feature in your car?

Sure, it’s building LTE into vehicles. But it’s also providing car companies with software, services, and new ideas.

Source: www.fastcompany.com

Finally someone is making money on Connected Cars, AT&T learns 3-4 years into the process that folks will pay a small add-on to their bill but not much and don’t want to know the incremental hardware cost of OnStar running LTE. This is a good trend.

Sens. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Cory Booker, D-N.J., in February reintroduced legislation to open the 5.9 GHz band to new uses — they also back the deal.

Source: safecarnews.com

Let’s get on with the testing and prove whether 802.11ac can “do no harm” to 5.9 Ghz DSRC. Both industries are in a stall until this is done. I hope they both win, and DSRC radios can be in production cars making them safer.

“Photo by Guttersberg AutomotiveAccording to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), more than 1,550 people are killed and 71,000 are injured each year as a direct result of drowsy driving.”

Source: www.cthreereport.com

I wonder what the steering wheel will do when you let go? Steer the car to safety?