Renesas Electronics unveils integrated software development environment for ADAS and automated driving

Renesas Electronics, a supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, announced that the Renesas e² studio integrated software development environment now has been expanded with new features to support the R-Car V3M

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Autonomous cars alter the playing field for motor insurance

Berg Insight, the M2M/IoT market research provider, released new findings about the effect of autonomous cars on auto insurance. Several major trends are currently impacting the motor insurance market, which has resulted in higher competitiveness and new stakeholders on the market.

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KYOCERA Technology used to create ultra-small crystal units awarded Inoue Harushige Prize

Kyocera Corporation announced that the company has received the 42nd Inoue Harushige Prize for developing ultra-small quartz crystal units for smartphones, wearable devices and innovative IoT solutions.

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Mobileye and Munich Re US collaborate to reduce collisions for public and commercial drivers

Mobileye, an Intel company providing advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous driving technologies, is collaborating with an insurance partner to reduce commercial fleet collisions and enhance road safety in the United States.

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Renesas and Cogent collaborate to develop a 3D surround view solution to assist drivers during parking

Renesas Electronics, a supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, and Cogent Embedded Inc., a embedded software provider to the automotive industry, announced their joint development of a 3D surround view solution to assist drivers during parking or low speed maneuvers.

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Renesas Electronics and Codeplay collaborate on OpenCL™ and SYCL™ for ADAS solutions

Renesas Electronics, a supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, and Codeplay Software Ltd., experts in high-performance compilers and software optimisation for multi-core processing, announced their collaboration to deliver ComputeAorta™, Codeplay’s OpenCL open standard-based software framework for Renesas R-Car system-on-chips (SoCs).

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V2X transceiver modules designed to develop safer and more automated vehicles

u‑blox, a global provider of wireless and positioning modules and chips, announced the VERA‑P1 series, the latest in its range of V2X modules designed to accelerate the development of safer and more automated vehicles.

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How the insurance industry is responding to connected cars and autonomous vehicles

The insurance space is traditionally a slow-moving industry, but for once it appears to be changing up a gear to be part of the automotive industry of the future. It is impressive how quickly IoT has become part of our everyday lives, when only a couple of years ago it was considered a tech ‘buzzword’.

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How will autonomous vehicles drive customer experience?

Whether it’s faster deliveries or better communication, customers’ expectations are on the rise around the world—and when it comes to the field service industry, this is no different.

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ADAS, the first steps towards the autonomous car

Andrew Lee, head of Market Intelligence and Analysis at Octo Telematics looks at the ADAS systems currently being installed in today’s cars and says they are the first steps towards the driverless car of tomorrow.

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Consumers are showing less interest in autonomous driving systems, says Strategy Analytics

After reaching an all-time high in 2015, consumers’ interest in autonomous driving systems has fallen in 2016, reflecting hesitance about the reliance of self-driving technology, according to a recent survey from the In-Vehicle UX (IVX) group at Strategy Analytics.

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Novatek deploys CEVA’s next generation vision enabled System-on-Chips

CEVA Inc., a licensor of signal processing IP for smarter, connected devices, reported that Novatek Microelectronics, has licensed and deployed the CEVA-XM4 intelligent vision DSP for its next-generation vision-enabled System-on-Chips (SoCs).

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HERE maps London for autonomous vehicles

Location cloud company, HERE, has mapped London in preparation for autonomous cars, as vehicle manufacturers plan to start trialling driverless vehicles on UK public roads as early as 2017.

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PLK selects Telit GNSS IoT module for advanced driver assistance system product

Telit, a global enabler of the Internet of Things (IoT), has announced that PLK Technology (PLK) has selected Telit’s SL869-V2 GNSS IoT module to deliver positioning functionality for Optian, a new product combining the features of an Advanced Driver Assistant System (ADAS) and a high-end automotive black box.

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HARMAN and NXP cooperate on secure V2X communication to save lives and speed traffic

At the recent Geneva International Motor Show 2016, HARMAN International Industries, Inc. the premier connected technologies company for automotive, consumer and enterprise markets, demonstrated its LIVS Connected Car Compute Platform.

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Low latency, high performance video processing circuit block built by Renesas for autonomous driving

Renesas Electronics, a supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced the development of a new video processing circuit block for use in automotive computing system-on-chips (SoCs) in future autonomous vehicles.

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