Here is story of VTI acceleration sensor interfacing. VTI is an originally Finnish company that has been mostly knows for it’s acceleration sensors. The company has been known with names VTI Hamlin and VTI Technologies, and is now part of Murata. I found some used sensors with three wires. I found no data, some but →
https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/15/finnish-autonomous-car-goes-for-a-leisurely-cruise-in-the-driving-snow/?ncid=rss&utm_source=tcfbpage&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29&utm_content=FaceBook&sr_share=facebook It’s one thing for an autonomous car to strut its stuff on a smooth, warm California tarmac, and quite another to do so on the frozen winter mix of northern Finland. Martti, a self-driving vehicle system homegrown in Finland, demonstrated just this in a record-setting drive along a treacherous (to normal drivers) Laplandish road. More →
http://tech.newstatesman.com/news/conscious-machines-way-off Breakthroughs in narrow AI, no progress towards general AI. I think he’s a bit optimistic on self-driving cars, at least for Finnish winter driving “We’re beginning to get there with better ideas about the brain, but all the progress in AI over the last decade which is real and exciting has been on narrow →
https://futurism.com/germany-drafts-worlds-first-ethical-guidelines-for-self-driving-cars/ The German government has published a list of ethical guidelines for self-driving cars. The rules favor the preservation of human life and preventing human injury over other concerns. →
https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/03/edge-computing-could-push-the-cloud-to-the-fringe/?utm_source=tcfbpage&sr_share=facebook I can believe in this vision! Edge computing could push the cloud to the fringe Peter Levine believes that cloud computing is soon going to take a back seat to edge computing — and we will very quickly see the majority of processing taking place at the device level. As crazy as that sounds — and →
https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/12/nvidia-is-powering-the-worlds-first-level-3-self-driving-production-car/?utm_source=tcfbpage&sr_share=facebook Audi announced Tuesday that its forthcoming A8 (ships in 2018) would be the first production vehicle to ship with a Level 3 self-driving feature onboard. Level 3 autonomy on the A8 will mean that drivers don’t have to pay attention to the road in certain conditions. Current highway driving assistance features like Tesla’s Autopilot, are classified →
http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/self-driving/under-the-hood-of-luminars-long-reach-lidar Current automotive lidars scan their surroundings by firing pulses from semiconductor diode lasers emitting at 905 nanometers in the near infrared and recording reflected light to build up a point cloud mapping the car’s surroundings. But laser-safety rules in the U.S. and other countries restrict the power in the laser pulse, limiting the lidar’s →
https://opensource.com/article/17/5/upgrade-your-car-these-5-arduino-projects Low-cost microcontrollers like the Arduino have opened new doors for makers looking to do fun and interesting things with their vehicles. This article takes look at a few car-related projects that make use of the popular open hardware microcontroller. →
http://www.edn.com/design/analog/4458402/Enhancing-drivers-eyes–senses-and-reflexes-with-creative-electronics?utm_content=buffer95f2f&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer Although we are not yet technically ready for autonomous vehicles (see this IEEE article: Hit the Brakes—We’re Not Ready for Autonomous Vehicles—I strongly agree), what we can have in the near-term is safety electronics in automobiles. Radar, LIDAR, and camera vision integration are becoming more affordable in modern automobiles. →
https://www.linux.com/news/event/open-source-summit-na/2017/5/automotive-grade-linux-looks-forward-daring-dab-and-electric-eel-2017 Linux Foundation’s Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) project understands the challenges of herding the car industry toward a common, open source computing standard. At the recent Embedded Linux Conference, Miner provided an AGL update and summarized AGL’s Yocto Project based Unified Code Base (UCB) for automotive infotainment, including the recent UCB 3.0 “Charming Chinook” release. →