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Wednesday, November 2, 2022

New Study Points Out Scary Driver Behavior In Supposedly Safer Cars

Despite literally just passing a variable message sign intermittently reading “Texting while driving is … (pause) … 23x more dangerous” placed just before one of the most hazardous, local maneuvers known as the Rochester Curve, society has gotten smarter about the importance of the age-old cliché of...
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#Cybersecurity #Functional Safety #Automotive SPICE

Tuesday, June 7, 2022

The Auto Industry Struggles with Systems Engineering; Reinventing the Wheel

In 2013, Forbes reported that "developing a new car can cost as high as $6 billion," but that estimate pre-dated the explosion of software from ten million (10M) lines of code in a 2011 Chevy Volt to an estimated billion (1B) lines of code in an autonomous vehicle. It also predated post-Covid inflat...
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#Functional Safety #Automotive SPICE #Automotive Agile

Friday, May 20, 2022

“Safe Software” Now The Table Stakes For Suppliers To Electric Vehicles

In 2021, the National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration (NHT HT -1.7%SA) essentially reopened a 2017 investigation into the continuing and numerous fire incidents involving electric vehicles. Amongst other aspects, the investigation will include the roles of battery management systems, opera...
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#Functional Safety #Automotive SPICE #Automotive Agile

Friday, May 13, 2022

Gate4SPICE Event - 19 May 2022; "Machine Learning and Automotive SPICE" -Santa Clara, California

What:  "Machine Learning and Automotive SPICE" Gate4SPICE Event  
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#Automotive SPICE

Tuesday, March 29, 2022

The Wise, Above-Average Use Of Autonomy In Auto Manufacturing

“Embrace your average,” quips comedian Dustin Nickerson in a viral TikTok video. “I’m very moderate, I’m very in the middle, I’m very average … I consider myself to be the Toyota Corolla of people.”
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#Automotive SPICE #Quality #Automotive Agile

Tuesday, March 15, 2022

The Complex Creation Of Newly Needed Software Teams In The Auto Industry

The world is changing rapidly. Exponentially. For 150 years, mechanical engineering ruled the Industrial Revolution and companies thrived based upon patentable ideas and ingenious designs. But then the Digital Revolution changed everything to connected coffee makers, connected dog collars and yes, c...
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#Automotive SPICE #Automotive Agile #Automotive