The tsunami autonomous car is drawing near the automotive
Getting into a car, which is able to drive autonomously, will become a habit?
Probably yes and one day cities will become similar to the minority Report metropolis.
These evocative and suggestive images, however, are only the visible part of an iceberg that, although not as dangerous as the one which sink the Titanic, will be able to overturn the whole automotive industry.
Insurances, for instance,...
Luxury brand have been trouble with the strange sore… Tesla!
I must say first of all that: the electric car fascinates me, I like its way to move without vibrations and with little noise.
The electric engine seems to me elegant, with its round components which just rotate, almost without tremors.
The efficiency is a byproduct of this elegance, with its 85/90% outclasses any internal combustion engine for automotive applications and it is comparable only to highly...
The myths of autonomous cars
Automotive Space has already dealt with autonomous cars, for instance in this post which reported people’s impressions on the topic.
But in the meanwhile the matter is become more and more current, also because the “bricks” – needed to build up the structure of this type of vehicle – still continue to be added.
By now it is a little wonder that a car can brake...
Alan Mulally and Google, the odd (odd?) couple?
Does a successful manager of the mechanical sector occupy a position in the board of one of the giants of internet?
The alliance may seem unusual but maybe it’s not so much!
The manager transferring from a sector to another aren’t infrequent, indeed: who is writing, for instance, saw a manager transferred from the beverage sector to the publishing industry.
Not surprising then as a top...
What future for the V2V- the communication among vehicles?
What diffusion will the vehicles communication have? How will the V2V evolve? Will it be a sort of Big Brother or a helpful service? The truth, as always happens, lies in the middle and also the V2V case follows the rule.
What about it? V2V stand for Vehicle-to-Vehicle and it is simply to understand that this technology tries to establish a temporary communication among vehicles in short-range standing...
Interview with Maurits Aalberse, Director of Connected Services at Qoros 2^nd part
Qoros is a brand that wants to grow quickly in different markets and therefore is proposing a range of cars with “Western” taste in the lines and equipment.
The car Qoros are “aligned” in this sense to those who are the most modern trends, such as the ability to offer interactive and dynamic connection-based services.
The QorosQloud system looks is rather evolved in this...
Interview with Maurits Aalberse, Director of Connected Services at Qoros 1^st part
Interview date: Jun 3, 2014
Professional Profile: Maurits Aalberse gained 16 years experience in multiple disciplines across the automotive and technology sectors, Maurits joined Qoros in 2012, where he is responsible for Telematics and QorosQloud™.
Prior to joining Qoros, Maurits spent time at some of the world’s leading blue-chip companies. Following his ten years at IBM, Maurits joined TomTom...
Alcohol and driving, a concrete danger
“What’s the matter? It’s just a shot glass!“: How many times have we said or listened to these words? You underestimate very often the combination of alcohol and driving because the abuse gives subtle symptoms that get worse gradually with increasing dose.
Several surveys have underlined the serious consequences of an high BAC (Blood Alcohol Concentration) as those reported...
Cellular when driving, “the big vice” of the Italians!
Sometimes the automobiles suffer from a strange syndrome, with well recognizable symptoms like slight losses directionality, slow reflexes, poor “harmony” with the flow of traffic.The diagnosis is easy: the problem is not of the vehicle but of the driver, distracted by something…
This “something” could be, in many cases, a very useful instrument besides: the cellular telephone.
A...
Leaf, the electric car that recharges your office and not only
What? Electric cars don’t exclusively use energy?
Obviously yes, but they swap energy as well, improving, for instance, office consumptions: that’s the experimentation by Nissan in Atsugi (Japan) based on the well-known reversibility properties about electric “machines”.
Electric motors, which work as power unit as well, allow the energy recovery whereby electric cars – as Leaf- improve...
Surprise! The consumers prefer self driving cars!
Cisco Systems (www.cisco.com) has interviewed 1,500 people and found that half of them buy cars based on the “technologic reputation” of the brand.
An interesting result as much as the other findings of the study, such as the increasing “digitization” of the buying process.
First things first, starting from the sample used for research: they surveyed 1,511 people in 10 different...
