Drowsiness while driving is a major cause of accidents. A driver fatigue detection system that is designed to sound an alarm, when appropriate, can prevent many accidents that sometime leads to the loss of life and property. In this paper, we classify drowsiness detection sensors and their strong and weak points. A compound model is proposed that uses image processing techniques to study the dy...

Communication of information from the roadway infrastructure to vehicles is expected to enhance Automated Highway Systems (AHS) by supporting subsystem functions like vehicle motion control, multiple vehicle coordination, and vehicle navigation. A suitable communication channel is information coding in the lateral reference used for automatic steering and lane keeping control, e.g. in the magne...

Driverless haulage trucks have recently been developed for open pit mines. To predict the benefits of an Autonomous Haulage System (AHS), a deterministic/stochastic model has been created to compare AHS to a manual system by estimating benchmarked Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) such as productivity, safety, breakdown frequencies, maintenance and labor costs, fuel consumption, tire wear, and ...

Due to the emerging trend of energy conservation and emission reduction around world, new vehicle industry has achieved rapid development. However, there are challenges regarding NVH(noise, vibration, harshness). When a pure electric is being driven, inside relatively quiet, which cannot bring driver sound feedback reflecting change state. In order solve this problem, paper studies design metho...

Distracted driving is a significant issue for our society today, and yet information technologies, including growing digital music collections, continue to be introduced into the automobile. This paper describes work concerning methods designed to lessen cognitive load and distracting visual demands on drivers as they go about the task of searching for and listening to digital music. The existi...

Electric vehicles have been based on a new product architecture: modular electric vehicle platforms (MEVPs). Through case study, this paper uses efficiency and sustainability criteria to analyse architecture as implemented by three automobile manufacturers in their European production networks. The results show that MEVPs adopted achieve the of mass-production order comply with regulatory envir...

Several Indian metropolitan cities are willing to adopt and explore various methods implement transit-oriented development (TOD) around their transit stations reverse the ongoing trend of automobile-oriented urbanization. Implementation development-based Land value capture (LVC) schemes in emerging middle-income countries asks understand adapt locally-specific favorable macro conditions such as...

With the developments in automobile technologies; more focus is given to the vehicle weight reduction. About 30% weight is contributed by the automobile body. Now-a-days, plastic composites are used to manufacture automobile bodies as they are strong, light, corrosion resistant and easy to use. This paper represents the selection of plastic composites to build vehicle roof as a replacement of c...

Since the invention of the automobile, cars have taken an important role in our society. Once they were available only to the wealthy few that could afford them as a luxury in life. However, today cars have become a necessity for everyone. German automobile companies like Benz, BMW, Volkswagen, Porsche and Audi are well known for their Engineering and technology. Identifying the above said fact...

This paper presents the results of comparative research between the Japanese and Korean automobile industries on the result of quality management and the improvement. Japanese vehicles have been seen as reliable, low maintenance, and good quality cars. Japanese manufacturers developed several important quality management purposes and unique vernacular standards. Meanwhile, though the Korean aut...