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Honda Motor announced the successful development of the world’s first technology to detect the potential for traffic congestion and determine whether the driving pattern of the vehicle is likely to create traffic jams. It's been developed in conjunction with the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Tokyo. Rather than providing information to help the driver avoid existing congestion based on current traffic information, the system monitors the acceleration and deceleration patterns of the vehicle to determine whether the driver’s driving pattern is likely to create traffic congestion. Based on this determination, the system provides the driver with appropriate information, including a color-coded display through the on-board terminal, to encourage smooth driving which will help alleviate the intensity of acceleration and deceleration by trailing vehicles, thereby helping to prevent or minimize the occurrence of vehicle congestion. The test ...

Last but not least, this is the last part of our interview with the R&D director from Valeo. Guillaume Devauchelle speaks of hybrids with an exclusive technology. "Given the CO2 regulations in Europe and US for 2020 and beyond, it is now obvious for the automotive community that hybridization of powertrains is no longer an option. Hybrid means breeding together an Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) and an electrical motor. The electrical motor allows to recover kinetic energy during braking in the form of electricity which is stored in a battery and made available for the next acceleration where the electric motor will provide extra torque to the ICE which, in turn, will need less fuel. The problem with the hybrids is that they use a powerful electric motor to allow significant range of electric drive. To do this a high voltage is needed, which turns the battery big and expensive. The battery is the main on-cost of an hybrid, and all of them today suffer from an overcost a...

For CESA 2012, R&D director from Valeo speaks about the connected car and applications from smartphones. "The connected car offers a new range of opportunities to increase safety & comfort as well as to reduce CO2 consumption. We are working on the embedded devices that will enable the car to be connected to its environment using all available wireless standards (GSM, LTE, WiFi, Bluetooth, RF...). We see the crucial role that the connected mobility of the end-user will have in this new paradigm. We already demonstrated some examples on how the car's systems could evolve : last September 2011 with Park4 Remote at the IAA in Franckfurt (autonomous Parking Manoeuvre with a remote control on a smartphone) and in the first quarter of 2012 with eSkin (connected display of the future that allows you to use safely your smartphone computing power while driving for off-board navigation for example) and many more to come... Valeo firmly believes that connected Driving As...

For CESA 2012, Guillaume Devauchelle, R&D director at Valeo, speaks about the new Vedecom Institute in Paris area. "In a context of unprecedented global change in both the demand for and use of personal transportation, the Vedecom Institute aims to increase the energy efficiency of personal transport and to decrease the presence of harmful emissions in priority urban and suburban areas, by inventing new mobilities at the same time as new vehicles. No industrial company, no services operator, however powerful, will be able to achieve this on his own. It requires the automobile manufacturers and suppliers, the higher education and research establishments, the territorial collectivities, the mobility operators, the infrastructure engineering companies and managers, the city planners, the economists, the sociologists to work together in inventing and deploying these new mobility systems. VeDeCoM creates such a strategic alliance, for the first time in the world.

Created at the end of 2005 under the name of Premium Automotive Cluster, the competitiveness cluster iDforCAR supports the innovation in the whole of the Vehicles sector today. Encouraged by the carmakers, this cluster fulfils the expectations and the needs of all the actors of western France, and particularly the SMEs engaged on the way of niche and specific vehicles. iDforCAR gathers today more than 170 members : enterprises, research laboratories and economic development partners. More than 74 projects have been certified since 2006. Amongst them, 42 projects have been financed with a global budget of 100 M€, of which 45 M€ came from public R&D aids. One of the highlights is the AutosarLab programme. Managed by iD4CAR and based on the expertise of two companies, Geensys and Kereval, the ambition is to act as a source of high-level expertise in the development and testing of embedded computer systems. AutosarLab supports projects at every phase of the V-Model, from initial s...

Located in Paris area, and dedicated to complex systems (including transport and automotive), System@tic cluster is preparing the car of the future. The Automotive & Transport Working Group aims at mastering the complexity of electronic architectures and embedded-systems to meet the need for technological development concerning embedded systems in automotive, railway and truck industries, leveraging the expertise and competences of all these sectors. This Working Group is structured around six technology areas, called “Development Axes”: - Electronics Architecture - Dependability of monitoring systems - Software tools and Methods - Diagnosis - Human-machine interfaces - Algorithms & data fusion for localisation and vision It also cooperates with the Telecom Working Group Read the full story here : http://www.systematic-paris-region.org/en/automotive-transport

CESA welcomes new partners with three automotive clusters (Mov’eo, Pôle Véhicule du Futur and Systematic), the national automotive platform (PFA), the french federation for electric and electronic equipements(FIEEC : Fédération des Industries Electriques, Electroniques et de Communication) and the Rhône-Alpes area. We remind that the congress will take place on 4th and 5th December 2012 in Paris.

CESA 2012 Partner As a partner, Vector is delighted to share information about automotive electronics. Here comes first a technical article about a Plug and Play Solution for AUTOSAR Software Components. You will learn how it's possible to exchange individual software components in flash memory without linking the entire project. This accelerates software development at each of the individual suppliers. Read the full story here : http://www.vector.com/portal/medien/cmc/press/Vector/AUTOSAR_SWC_Austausch_ATZ_Elektronik_201202_PressArticle_EN.pdf The second part of the contribution is a review from Dr Beck, founder of Vector, about old and new trends. He looks back on 2011 and writes about key topics for 2012. The paper is about AUTOSAR, functional safety, E-Mobility and Ethernet in the car. Link : http://www.vector.com/portal/medien/cmc/press/Vector/Trends2012_ElektronikAutomotive_201201_PressArticle_EN.pdf

New analysis from Frost & Sullivan (Connectivity, App Stores, and Cloud-based Delivery Platforms: Future of Connected Infotainment and Telematics Market), finds almost every OEM is developing and hosting apps on popular application stores in the next year. Most of them have already flooded the market with free apps focusing on areas such as customer relationship management (CRM) and breakdown assistance, while others have created value-added apps such as remote start/stop. But, new developments such as the Nokia MirrorLink, using which Alpine has already created an aftermarket head unit, are also opening up new revenue opportunities for VMs to enable smartphone apps inside the car in a complete remote terminal fashion with controls using vehicle human machine interface (HMI). This, in turn, is creating a massive interest in HMI elements as both revenue generator as well as brand differentiator. Concepts such as Chevrolet MyLink, GMC Intellilink are examples of this HMI response ...

In an statement for France Mobilité Electrique, the web site of Avere France*, former minister Jean-Louis Borloo says that EVs are absolutely necessary. More than two years after the launch of french national plan for electro mobility, the first vehicles are hitting the market. Thanks to companies and public authorities, thousands of units have been ordered for the next 4 years. But, Jean-Louis Borloo claims for a faster adoption. The target is to cut the CO2 emissions of 3 % by 2020, saving 17,5 millions of tons compared to 2007. According to Mr Borloo, EVs should account for 27 % of the whole market by 2025. In 2030, incomes from the development of clean cars should represent 15 billions euros, saving in the same time jobs in the automotive industry. *An association promoting EVs and electromobility