AutoNetTV Media (ANTV) and the Car Care Council (CCC) announce a new co-branding video partnership to produce and broadcast timely videos to be viewed by consumers in independent repair shop waiting rooms.
Wilson Auto Parts, a five-location distributor based in New Jersey, is upgrading its business management solution to improve distribution and inventory management.
Tantalum’s Connected Car platform integrated with the Openbay marketplace seamlessly connects motor vehicles with a nationwide network of automotive service providers.
While semi-autonomous vehicles are already hitting the road, General Motors plans to offer a full autonomous vehicle (AV) by 2019, and Nissan Motor Co. is aiming to do the same in 2022.
Bosch and Continental each are acquiring 5 percent in HERE Technologies, a global provider of digital mapping and location services. The parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price.
ABI Research identified three important technology trends in intelligent transportation: Freight as a service; vehicle OEMs adopting factory-fit telematics solutions; and the rapid growth of the commercial telematics sector.
In the 1960s, Robert Fenton was involved in groundbreaking research on driverless vehicles. He and his colleagues built and tested some of the earliest autonomous cars on roadways around Columbus, Ohio.
Snap-on continues to add to its suite of problem-solving scan tool products with the EEHD866048 PRO-LINK Ultra Diagnostic Software for Light and Medium Trucks (LMT).
Suppliers selling collision repair parts now can seamlessly integrate their inventory, reducing the amount of time needed to quote on parts requests. The time saved allows the parts sales team to focus on customers and close more sales.
DENSO Corporation and FLOSFIA Inc., a tech startup spun from Kyoto University, are partnering to develop a next-generation power semiconductor device expected to reduce the energy loss, cost, size and weight of inverters used in electrified vehicles (EVs).
The new Snap-on EEHD866025 PRO-LINK Ultra Diagnostic System software is designed specifically to support the diagnosis and calibration of Hino engines.
More than 33 million autonomous vehicles will be sold globally in 2040, a substantial increase from the 51,000 units forecast for the first year of significant volume in 2021.
There are three systems you will most commonly encounter: blind spot monitoring, lane watch and frontal collision avoidance (also used for dynamic cruise control). Each system for every vehicle model has specific dynamic or static calibrations.
By 2020, 90 percent of the vehicles sold in the U.S. will be equipped with technology that communicates with the OE vehicle manufacturer and their dealer network.
Chipola College Automotive instructor John Gardner has signed on for season 4 of the television show, “Tech Garage,” presented by RockAuto.com and airing on Discovery’s Velocity Channel.
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