EPN Automotive Electronics Blog

IAA 2011: An extra eye on the road

One of the hottest among the hot topics at IAA 2011 - Internationale Automobil-Ausstellung - in Frankfurt is safety. Safety for driver and passengers but also for pedestrians and all the other traffic on the road.

Cooperation for better interoperability of AUTOSAR tools

Efficient work with “TargetLink” and “DaVinci Developer”, that’s what dSpace and Vector Informatik intend to provide. Developers of ECU software may benefit soon from seamless interaction between these tools which has the potential to simplify the model-based development of AUTOSAR-compliant software.

Assistant takes the risk out of bad driving

In front of you there’s this slow coach crawling over the country road, no oncoming traffic in sight. Let’s overtake this dawdler as long as the view is still clear, shan’t we? You step on the gas pedal and suddenly the situation changes dramatically. A vehicle emerges from a curve that could not be seen before. Break off? Humiliation? No way! You are sure you’ll be able to make it.