The unit allows integration of pre-crash occupant safety functions and inertial sensors for stability control.More>>

Adaptive headlights adjust their aim based on the pitch of the vehicle and are a potential application for MEMS accelerometers and gyroscopes.More>>

Demands on auto designers for enhanced engine performance, emissions control, and safety features, coupled with the need to keep costs down, make sensor selection critical. This primer provides the information needed to make the right choices.More>>

If you've ever worked while resting a laptop computer on your lap, you know that computers emit heat, and the more powerful the computer, the greater the heat produced. This is a problem because electronics really don't enjoy elevated temperatures. A hot computer is a slow computer or, worse, a...More>>

Use of vehicular electronic stability controls is growing. A new quartz MEMS gyroscope can handle the harsh under-hood environment, where temperatures exceed 125°C and shock and vibration are significant.More>>

Arecent study by TRW Automotive Inc. reports that 74% of respondents say vehicle safety features and options are more important to them than they were five years ago. And all of the entries on Edmunds.com's Top 10 High-Tech Car Safety Technologies-which the automotive information source recommends...More>>

The development of active, noncontact sensors based on Hall effect, magnetoresistive, and variable-reluctance transformer technologies is penetrating the established market of passive, contact sensors-and increasingly taking market share for automotive speed and position applications, says market...More>>

On March 26, South Florida's Sun-Sentinel reported that a local woman, whose two-year- old daughter was killed before her eyes as a neighbor's car backed over her, is on a mission."More>>

High-end machine vision applications are progressing from 2D to 3D imaging with techniques such as laser triangulation and stereovision, say analysts at Frost & Sullivan."More>>

Television ads are doing automotive engineering a disservice, focusing as most do on snappier looks, more horsepower, and occasionally on some mysterious quality that not even alert viewers can figure out. The truth is that the automotive industry is taking the lead in making its products more...More>>