by Future Tech | Jan 31, 2025 | _Future tech_, _What's Hot_
There is a familiar tension between various teams who create vehicles – the industrial designers present the vision; the engineering community are tempted to knock that back into a shape they know already works in existing products and the production engineers want...
by Future Tech | Jan 31, 2025 | _Future tech_
The EU27 and UK as well as the U.S. have made some aspects of advance driver assistance systems (‘ADAS’) mandatory, with the latest iteration featuring driver monitoring. As the fitment volumes increase, so the cost of the systems falls. Now, it may well be a few Rand...
by Future Tech | Nov 30, 2024 | _Future tech_, _What's Hot_
The news is grim – and getting worse. For some time, the European automotive industry ran entire factories below break-even point, as it struggled with moving ‘national’ emblems into more cost-effective economies. Indeed, the inertia of moving an entire plant from one...
by Future Tech | Oct 1, 2024 | _Future tech_, _What's Hot_
Let’s start with ‘be careful about what you wish for’! Jaguar established a deeply engrained image – now called ’brand’ – based on beautiful cars, discussions about the future as WW2 bombs fell, five wins at Le Mans and fabled trips at speeds of 150 mph or more across...
by Future Tech | Aug 1, 2024 | _Future tech_, _What's Hot_
Long ago on 10th December 1997 Toyota introduced the first generation of Prius that went on sale in Japan only with many aspects completed largely by hand from electric motor winding to assembly of the body. The second phase from 2000 to 2003 was sold in selected...
