Issue 03/2017 | IEC e-tech

Tech & innovation

To drive or not to drive?

Imagine someone who hasn’t driven a car in the past 30 years. Taking the wheel of a modern car today, this person would probably be lost trying to figure out all the electronics inside. Voice command, self-driving cars...

Tech & innovation

Charging on the go

Each day buses log thousands of kilometers following routes on the streets of cities and towns around the globe. It may seem unremarkable, then, for a fleet of buses to have provided a total of 500 000 kilometers of...

Systems in intelligent cars use biometrics

Digital world

Biometrics for consumer markets

Fingerprint, palm, iris, voice, facial and gesture recognition will aid advances in driver-assistance systems and vehicle security. Incorporating cloud analytics will generate useful information and allow notifications...

Thermoelectric generator (TEG) installation in exhaust system of BMW saloon

Greentech

Energy harvest ‘feeds’ road vehicles

Recovering energy can offer attractive solutions for providing additional power to motor vehicles at the same time as cutting their fuel consumption and emissions. They rely on a number of systems that recover thermal...

Active wellness car seat for driverless vehicles

Tech & innovation

Are we driving or ride sharing?

In the next decade, cars will be well on the way to, or have reached the goal of becoming fully self-driving. As the industry continues to develop new levels of autonomous vehicles, the whole notion of personal transport...