Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) have an even worse scorecard, with an average of almost 150% more problems, the consumer group found. By contrast, ordinary hybrid cars are a "bright spot," with about a quarter fewer problems than gas-powered cars, the analysis found. Consumer Report...
The function PxVehicleUpdates updates the internal dynamics of each vehicle, poses the wheel shapes of the vehicle's actor and applies either velocity or acceleration changes to the actor, depending on the update mode chosen with PxVehicleSetUpdateMode. More details can be found in SectionWheel P...
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Although the pace and shape of the disruptive changes induced by ACES cannot be predicted accurately at this point in time, there seems to be a consensus in the relevant literature that after 2040 most vehicle sales will be electric and capable of autonomous driving, with connectivity being an ...
In the past few years, autonomous driving (AD) has generated sizable interest. The buzz started with a wave of bold announcements by tech companies and automakers about their plans to launch vehicles with conditional and high automation. These declarations proved prema...
Commercial autopilots can be traced back to the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Autonomous Land Vehicle (ALV) program in 1984. Since then, autonomous driving has gained widespread interest from academia and industry, with research institutes, car companies, Internet giants, and...
While many Western European nations have expressed an interest in self-driving vehicles (Hopkins and Schwanen,2018; Blyth,2019; Mladenović et al.,2020), the motivations for engaging with such technology appear to differ. For example, Finland sees self-driving vehicles as an interesting opportunity...
This study was designed to separate the association of age, sex and helmet use with the risk of death for occupants of two-wheeled motor vehicles (TWMV) involved in crashes into its two theoretical components: severity of the crash and occupant resilience. We analyzed the retrospective cohort ...
In 2002, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) launched FreedomCAR, which is a partnership with automakers to advance high-technology research needed to produce practical, affordable advanced vehicles that have the potential to significant... ...
His main research interest focuses on traffic flow modeling and control. Henk Wymeersch obtained the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering / Applied Sciences in 2005 from Ghent University, Belgium. He is currently a Professor of Communication Systems with the Department of Electrical Engineering at ...