QNX-powered 2015 Audi TT named best-connected car

Is it innovative, beautiful, versatile, or just plain cool? I haven’t quite decided, so I’m thinking it’s all of the above. The QNX-based vi...

Mitsubishi Motors Future: Summer Guest Post #1

This post was written May 12, 2014 by Anton Reed '14 for Economics 244. The Prof edited it and appended comments by others in the class....

Better safe than sorry — don’t miss our webinar on automotive systems

Lynn Gayowski I’m from Winnipeg where there is an extremely high population of terrible drivers, so I like to think I have a special unders...

The lost concept car photos

Have you ever rummaged through old boxes in your basement and discovered family photos you had totally forgotten about — or never knew exist...

BMW to recall cars over air bag fears

BMW is recalling about 1.6 million 3-Series vehicles produced between May 1999 and August 2006 worldwide. They will replace passenger-side f...

Talking safety in Novi

Grant Courville Last week, I had the pleasure of participating in a panel at Telematics Update's Advanced Automotive Safety Conference ...

Static analysis, functional safety, and why you should attend this webinar

Let's cut to the chase. Any webinar hosted by Chris Hobbs, a member of the safe systems team at QNX, is worth a listen. I honestly can...

The palindromic standard

The QNX OS for Automotive Safety was recently granted ISO 26262 certification. So why is that such a big deal? Allow me to explain. When it ...

Google's Autonomous Car: Don't Drink the Kool-aid

Google's senior executives are busily touting the wonders of autonomous vehicles. There's the technological marvel, at least in the ...

Call for Entries: 2014-15 PACE Supplier Innovation Competition

Time for suppliers to apply for the 2014-15 PACE COMPETITION ! (Links to PACE web site)

The drive to 2015 CES — first stop: Connected Car Conference

Derek Kuhn The 2015 International CES show is just 6 months away. As a preview of what we’ll see in January, the Consumer Electronics Associ...

Nothing semi about this HEMI

I rarely speak about any car in particular — I'm more interested in trends than trim levels — but allow me to make an exception. Because...