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The Boston Globe reports on this year's New England Motor Press Association (NEMPA) conference on automotive design and technology held on May 26 at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge MA; topics included autonomous vehicles, advances in hybrid and electric cars, applications of the latest digital technology (including 3D printing) for design, and the increasing trove of software installed in each new vehicle. Reporter Bill Griffiths neatly summarizes the conference by cherry-picking the best lines from the keynoters and panelists, e.g., this one from Mary Gustanski, VP Engineering of Delphi Automotive:
There are 24 million lines of [software] code in an F-35 fighter jet but there will be 100 million in coming vehicles.
Oh, and better get used to an onslaught of new acronyms and buzzwords like V2P (vehicle to pedestrian), V2V (obvious), V2I, etc.
Toyota was presented an award at the conference for "Toyota Safety Sense" (TSS-P), a package of driving safety features supported by in-vehicle cameras and front-grill mounted radar, scheduled to be rolled out to most new Toyota vehicles beginning in model year 2018.
Automotive journalist Steve Hanley presents his conference report here.
(Score: 1) by OwMyBrain on Monday June 06 2016, @01:46PM
So, basically, this isn't an engineering problem. It's a political one.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Monday June 06 2016, @06:46PM
Yes, but there's no way to fix the political problems, so we need engineered solutions to work around the political problems.
An excellent example of this is the usage of VPNs by individuals: IP laws are crap, so we use VPNs so we can do things like stream Netflix from a different country because of region-locking.
Another example would be the use of cameras (like dashcams and cellphone cameras) to record cops. We can't politically make cops act better, so we have to record them to prove how badly they act. If it weren't for random citizens recording the cops, they'd get away with shooting unarmed black men in the back.
Another example is the use of mobile apps like Waze to let people share the locations of speed traps.
I'm sure others here can come up with more examples of this. The only way to solve political problems like this are to create technological solutions which force the political class to fix the problem, or at least render it totally obsolete.