Not since Henry Ford’s Model T revolutionized transportation has the auto industry seen so much change. Cars are getting smarter. Every car is expected to be outfitted with hundreds of sensors, from cabin and outward-facing cameras to radars, lidar, and GNSS (global navigation satellite system) technology. This new technology is expected to generate up to 11 petabytes of data per year by 2020.

While advancements in radar, lidar, and camera systems are encouraging, sensors are limited by their line of sight. A new technology called Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X) complements the capabilities of existing sensors by providing 360-degree non-line-of-sight (NLOS) awareness, extending a vehicle’s ability to “see” further down the road – even at blind intersections or in bad weather conditions.

Continue reading How C-V2X is paving the way to tomorrow’s autonomous driving at ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle International.

Jaguar Land Rover has developed new vehicle technology that will tell drivers when to speed up or slow down to enable them to avoid sitting at red traffic lights.

Its connected vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) uses a Green Light Optimal Speed Advisory (GLOSA) system, which is able to ‘talk’ to traffic lights to find out their light cycles and then feed back to individual cars what the appropriate speed is to keep traffic flow steady.

The system is intended to improve congestion and reduce emissions by preventing drivers either harshly accelerating to beat the lights or suddenly braking.

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Autonomous driving is fast becoming a reality. Increasing driving assistance and safety features such as adaptive cruise control and lane departure warnings are already becoming commonplace. Predictive ride technology is being introduced whereby the car senses the state of the road ahead and adjusts the ride settings to maximize comfort and reduce travel sickness when driving over uneven surfaces.

McKinsey projects that by 2030 up to 15% of vehicles sold will be fully autonomous. For passengers, that is likely to mean a smooth and comfortable driverless experience – but this pushes the need to achieve all the external connectivity to meet lifestyle and/or workplace requirements.

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A breakthrough in autonomous vehicle communication has been achieved by researchers at the University of Warwick in the UK, who used 5G to send data speeds of 2.867gbps over-the-air to a Level 4 low-speed vehicle.

The speed record was conducted on the 28GHz millimetre wave band and is 40 times faster than current fixed-line broadband speeds – the equivalent of transmitting the full contents of a high-definition movie in the less than 10 seconds.

With vehicle communication a vital factor for a future of autonomous driving, large quantities of data will be required to be transmitted with speed.

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Autotalks, a developer of V2X chipsets, has added C-V2X capability to its existing DSRC-enabled automotive chipset, thus bringing the two different V2X technologies together.

The chipset supports DSRC based on 802.11p/ITS-G5 standards and C-V2X based on 3GPP specifications.

While DSRC-based V2X is being deployed in the USA, Europe and Japan, C-V2X is gaining momentum in other regions. However, the two protocols are very different, so a dual-mode functionality has the potential to shorten the time to market for global connected vehicles.

The Autotalks solution uses existing automotive qualified AEC-Q100 grade 2 chipsets. The PC5 solution utilizes the globally defined 5.9GHz ITS spectrum for V2X and is cellular network agnostic.

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A number of companies from the 5G Automotive Association (5GAA) have performed Europe’s first live demonstration of cellular V2X (C-V2X).

The technology uses real-time direct communications over ITS (intelligent transport systems) spectrum and the display demonstrated the technology’s ability to work without cellular network coverage.

The BMW Group, Ford Motor Company and Groupe PSA, in collaboration with Qualcomm Technologies and Savari, set up the display to show how automotive companies can work together to establish communication between vehicles and infrastructure to make traffic safer and support future AVs.

A number of different types of warning procedures were demonstrated: warnings of emergency braking ahead, collisions at intersections, slow and stationary vehicles, traffic lights, vehicles ahead making turning manoeuvres across traffic, and of vulnerable road users such as pedestrians.

Continue reading OEMs collaborate with Qualcomm to enable V2X between brands at ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle International.

Inrix has presented its AV Road Rules platform, which allows cities and road authorities to assign, validate and manage traffic rules and restrictions for AVs and enables AVs to report back problems with infrastructure.

When it comes to AVs, signage and road striping are not the ideal way to communicate changed road rules (for example when there are road works). Currently, AVs have to interpret information intended for humans, which can be an imprecise process.

Seven cities and road authorities and four AV operators have signed on to support Inrix AV Road Rules at launch, and others have expressed interest in joining when it expands later this year.

Continue reading New platform connects AVs to infrastructure at ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle International.

For years, a set of niche engineers within US car companies have been testing DSRC for V2X applications, assuming it would emerge as the standard technology. They have been attending standards meetings and researching a myriad of technical issues, especially around security and latency. Most of these engineers never imagined that 4G – and now the longer-term option of 5G – would emerge as a competitor to DSRC.

“They were flatfooted by cellular V2X (C-V2X) because the car makers have never found a convincing business model for DSRC,” says Andrew Hart, director of industry research group SBD Automotive.

Continue reading C-V2X vs DSRC: Which technology is better for autonomous vehicles? at ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle International.

Hyundai has announced it is partnering with semiconductor company Autotalks to develop the next generation of chipsets to enable effective V2X communications.

The strategic partnership is formed through a direct investment. Prior to the investment by Hyundai, Autotalks completed four funding rounds with a total of more than US$80m in investments.

“Connectivity is one of the core technologies that can be applied to smart city business models, as well as autonomous driving and infotainment,” said Yunseong Hwang, director of open innovation business group at Hyundai Motor Company.

Hagai Zyss, CEO of Autotalks, commented, “Having a top global car manufacturer such as Hyundai invest directly in Autotalks is not only a vote of confidence in the company, but a testament to the growing V2X market.

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V2X chipset specialist Autotalks has teamed with Israeli startup Griiip, which is working on a single-seat race car, to demonstrate how V2V could improve safety in professional and amateur racing. The demonstration was held on March 15, 2018 on a motorsport track in Be’er Sheva, Israel. Griiip’s G1 race cars were fitted with Autotalks’ V2X solution, based on the Craton2 chipset.

The solution is designed to understand when a race car seriously endangers the safety of other drivers – for example when a driver loses control of the car and stops in a dangerous place on the track or when a car slows down unexpectedly.

Continue reading V2V demonstrated for motorsport safety at ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle International.