Automotive IT News and Facts
Nevada became the first US state to give the green light for Google to test its driver-less car on public roads. The state’s Department of Motor Vehicles said in a statement that it had approved a license application filed by the online information group after experts were satisfied with the outcome of a series of [...]
Mercedes-Benz will start equipping new models with an eCALL-conform emergency warning system from June 1. The German premium car maker, a member of the Daimler Group, said new Mercedes models such as the new B-Class, C-Class, E-Class and M-Class will be equipped with the system, which automatically calls an emergency number after a serious accident, [...]
DETROIT — Daimler’s r&d chief, Thomas Weber, expects autonomous driving to be available in cars in the not too distant future. “By 2015 the preconditions for autonomous driving will be in place,” said Thomas Weber in an interview during the Detroit auto show here. Weber said new technologies already available in Daimler’s Mercedes models and [...]
Mercedes-Benz is moving ahead systematically with the modernization of its factories and that involves a consolidation of production and logistics systems. Those systems are the key to maintaining the flexibility today’s carmakers need to remain competitive. They are especially important to a builder of premium cars like Mercedes-Benz. The company’s production and logistics structures have [...]
The PLM power relationships in motorsports’ top tier have been set in stone for many years. Dassault Systèmes, with its Catia design program, is the undisputed heavyweight. But rival Siemens PLM is fighting back.The German group’s PLM software has been taking some business awa from Dassault in the auto industry as a whole and it [...]
Mercedes-Benz has inaugurated two new climatic wind tunnels that will enable the German premium carmaker to test new vehicles’ performance in extreme weather conditions early in the development process. The wind tunnels, located at Mercedes’ Sindelfingen, Germany, site, can produce temperatures ranging from minus 40 to plus 60 degrees Celsius, hurricanes with wind speeds of [...]
Pope Benedict iwill take delivery of a new hybrid Mercedes “popemobile” when he visits Germany in late September, according to a report in Germany’s Wirtschaftswoche magazine. The new papal transportation is currently being manufactured at a Daimler plant in Sindelfingen, Germany. It will be based on the New Mercedes M-Class, will be white and will, [...]
Volvo’s emergency-braking system received top honors in an ADAC test of six systems. The technology, as installed on a Volvo V60, received a “very good” from the German automobile club. Mercedes, Audi and VW systems were rated “good,” while BMW and Infiniti were classified as “satisfactory.” The ADAC tested the system in a range of [...]
SHANGHAI – Daimler’s A-Class concept car, which was unveiled in Shanghai Monday, has a range of infotainment features that the carmaker hopes will demonstrate its strengths in in-car information technology. Mercedes, which suffered major electronics problems in some of its cars early in the last decade, has been conservative in its development of new infotainment [...]
Keen to bring future key technologies inhouse, Mercedes-Benz will start producing its own fuel cell stacks in Vancouver from 2013. The premium car maker, the core division of Germany’s Daimler group, said construction is starting immediately on a 2000 square meter facility that is cheduled for completion in 2012. “To consolidate our leading position in [...]
