Sentences with phrase «of vehicle engineering»

«The platform, in general, can take 4x4,» Ford of Europe's head of vehicle engineering, Joe Bakaj, told Autocar.

«We may have reached the level where the safety benefits don't match affordability,» said Francois Castaing, Chrysler's executive vice president of vehicle engineering.

«I love the sound of the V8, but it can be loud, and you can't annoy people in your neighborhood,» said Steve Von Foerster, the former head of vehicle engineering for Ford Motor Company, who now leads Ford's user experience team in product development.

«It's the first patent out of many to come in all areas of vehicle engineering,» Faraday senior director of electric drive Silva Hiti told Inc. via an email.

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To deal with a backlog of flawed parts and vehicles, said these current and former employees, Tesla has brought in teams of technicians and engineers from its service centers and remanufacturing lines to help with rework and repairs on site in Fremont.

Automakers have argued that the rules could result in the loss of up to 1 million jobs because consumers could be less willing to buy the more fuel efficient vehicles since their engineering will result in higher price tags.

Terranova gives the example of car manufacturers that need to marry proprietary engineering data with customer feedback in order to build accurate predictive models for vehicle maintenance problems.

Congressional testimony and investigations by the company and regulators revealed that GM engineers knew of the faulty switch for at least a decade, but a series of errors led to affected vehicles being recalled only in 2014.

The ST edition of the Edge sport utility vehicle that Ford introduces Thursday in advance of the Detroit auto show is powered by a 335 - horsepower twin - turbo V - 6 engine, engineered on the track and styled to look «sinister,» said its designer Steve Gilmore.

«We shredded a lot of race tracks with this vehicle,» Jonathan Crocker, the Edge's chief engineer, told reporters ahead of the reveal.

It is also an engineering and design source for GM's small vehicles and electric vehicles, as well as home to some of GM's top - ranked suppliers globally.

In another study of Kohn's, currently under review for publication, he gave engineering students blueprints of a simple vehicle that moved from point A to point B.

Being engineered as among the most survivable and heavily armored vehicles in existence, the Abrams tank is built to withstand a high degree of enemy fire, such some enemy tank rounds, RPGs, rockets and missiles.

The Army's expedited APS effort is being managed by a coordinated team of Tank Automotive Research, Development & Engineering Center engineers, acquisition professionals, and industry; it is intended to assess current APS state - of - the art by installing and characterizing some existing non-developmental APS systems on Army combat vehicles, Army officials said.

In it, space nerds of all stripes will find a ton of engineering to marvel at, including a 35 - story space vehicle (and even the prospect the intercontinental rockets that could get you from London to New York in under a half an hour), as well as plenty of discussion of the many technical challenges to realize this dream.

For Krafcik, the integration of self - driving hardware and software is the trick, and that engineering challenge stands apart from what GM and Cruise have consistently said about the need to bring self - driving technology into the vehicle during the assembly process.

SAE International, the professional association of automotive engineers, defines vehicle automation in six steps, from Level 0 (no automation) to Level 5 (full automation).

Second, to the extent that Uber's legal problems worsen, and to the extent they focus on Kalanick's personal role, including in recruiting an ex-Google engineer to head autonomous vehicle development, some of that legal heat can be focused on Kalanick, rather than Uber.

Among the people who've left or announced departures, either under pressure or for other reasons, are seven executives who had reported to Mr. Kalanick: SVP of Business Emil Michael, who is one of Mr. Kalanick's best friends and was the second-most powerful person at the company; ridesharing president Jeff Jones (ostensibly the No. 2 executive for Uber's core business); head of growth Ed Baker; engineering vice president Amit Singhal; communications and public policy chief Rachel Whetstone; head of finance Gautam Gupta; and Anthony Levandowski, head of Uber's autonomous vehicles program, who was fired amid theft allegations made against him by his former employer.

In addition to serving as our Chief Executive Officer since October 2008, Mr. Musk has contributed significantly and actively to us since our earliest days in April 2004 by recruiting executives and engineers, contributing to vehicle engineering and design, raising capital for us and bringing investors to us, and raising public awareness of Tesla.

Those who have left Uber in recent times have included the VP of maps and business platform Brian McClendon, president Jeff Jones, AI lead Gary Marcus, communications SVP Rachel Whetstone, VP of global vehicle programs Sherif Marakby, VP of product Ed Baker, SVP of engineering Amit Singhal and self - driving car head Anthony Levandowski.

The Nissan people kept hectoring Levandowski about vehicle - to - vehicle communication, which the company's engineers (and many in the automotive industry) seemed to see as a significant part of the self - driving car solution.

SAN FRANCISCO — Uber has fired the engineer accused of stealing self - driving car trade secrets from its competitor Waymo, bowing to pressure from a federal judge to cut ties with the former star of the ride - hailing company's autonomous vehicle program.

As lead research engineer at Cohda Wireless (2004 - 2011), Dr Haley was a principal inventor of the technology that enables Cohda's world leading wireless equipment for vehicle - to - vehicle safety.

Tesla founder Elon Musk said that Apple has hired a number of Tesla engineers and that he's «glad they're doing an EV [electric vehicle]».

Video analysis of the latest test led some analysts to conclude that the missile caught fire and disintegrated as it plunged back toward Earth's surface, suggesting that North Korea's engineers might not be capable yet of building a reentry vehicle that can carry the warhead safely through the upper atmosphere.

The third was a «loss of communication between autonomous vehicle control software and test engineer GUI.»

Otto, which is the brainchild of two senior self - driving car engineers who used to work for Google, builds kits that can turn existing transportation vehicles into autonomous trucks.

Doug, who I regard as one of the world's most talented engineering execs, is focused on vehicle engineering.»

Waymo, originally Google's autonomous vehicle division, has accused one of the best engineers in the field, Anthony Levandowski, of stealing 14,000 documents from it and then moving on to Uber when the ride - hailing company bought Levandowski's new self - driving truck company, Otto, last summer.

Founded by three of the world's leaders in the self - driving vehicle industry, Aurora works at the intersection of rigorous engineering and applied machine learning.

The three - wheeled Elio is engineered to attain a highway mileage rating of up to 84 mpg while providing the comfort of amenities such as power windows, power door lock and air conditioning accompanied by the safety of multiple air bags and an aerodynamic, enclosed vehicle body.

Engineers at the start - up evangelical missions agency, headquartered in the flat, rural expanses of northern Florida, roll their exotic vehicle from its hangar for critical tests.

A life - support system is analogous to the engineering system that maintains the environment inside the space vehicle to support the life of the cosmonauts.

Mike Coughlan, its director of vehicle design, departed for the Williams Formula 1 team in May, and engineer Steve Hallam, who also has a F1 background, departed for a job in Australian V8 Supercars.

Some of those vehicles include the M1128 Mobile gun system, the M1132 Engineer support vehicle, the M1133 Medical evacuation vehicle and the M1135 NBC recon vehicle.

We doubt that oblong - shaped vehicles get any more staggering or worthy of attention than this specially - built Iveco Domino transporter, a nod to an era dominated by Ferrari and Michael Schumacher, a place where he no doubt had countless meetings with engineers and also enjoyed moments of peace away from the flurry of the paddock after winning races.

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It has been tested for side impact and has proven to be one of the best currently on the market This seat has been engineered and crash tested to exceed US standards set by FMVSS 213 (Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No 213).

Stefan Duma, a mechanical engineer who is head of the Virginia Tech - Wake Forest University School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences, translated his experience conducting vehicle safety tests to helmets.

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Dr Shirvani, an Austrian and Iranian national, is an engineer by training and has earned her Ph.D. in Fuel and Vehicle Technologies from the University of Oxford and her Master's degree in Engineering for Sustainable Development from the University of Cambridge.

Mining company Exton Cubic Group Limited is considering taking legal actions against the police and some authorities in the Ashanti Region for what it called the unlawful seizure of Ibrahim Mahama's Engineers and Planners (E&P) vehicles and mining equipment.

A statement signed by the managing director of the company, Augustus Amegashie, said «the current issue at stake has to do with the impounding of vehicles belonging to one of our sub-contractors, Engineers & Planners.»

The Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon Osei Mensah is waiting on official documentation from the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources before releasing vehicles and equipment belonging to Ibrahim Mahama's Engineers and Planners (E&P).

Although the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Peter Amewu explained that the said company was doing nothing wrong, Mr. Mensah said he was waiting on official documentation from the Ministry before releasing the vehicles and equipment to the Engineers and Planners (E&P).

Growing the voluntary irtec Licensing Scheme that ensures the competence of commercial vehicle technicians is the aim of a new agreement between the IRTE (a professional sector of the Society of Operations Engineers (SOE)-RRB- and the Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI), this is the government - recognised Sector Skills Council for the industry.

Whilst the aim of bringing together the various disparate strands of anti-discrimination legislation made some sense on grounds of clarity, it was feared that the Bill would become a vehicle for social engineering.

Two of engineering's most respected names have finalised an agreement to improve commercial vehicle industry standards by developing the technician - licensing scheme, irtec.

Just last month, Department of Environmental Protection electrical engineer Magdy Youssef was forced to resign after he used a city - issued vehicle to run personal errands and commute home 19 times over four months in 2016.