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Newly launched safety research project of Toyota

Sep 102014

The largest car manufacturer of Japan, Toyota has recently announced to invest 211 crore on its automobile brand to expand safety research on its automobiles. The project is to be conducted at its Collaborative Safety Research Centre (CSRC ) in Ann Arbor, US.

The aim of this mission is to enhance and advance automotive safety features that focus on challenges and opportunities of future security technologies.

The centre’s newly expanded mission focuses on delivering safety information to drivers via touch screens and sensors, enabling cars to signal/ communicate each other to avoid collisions. Drivers get instant alert on dangers and will receive more information through their tablets, mobile phones and other touch screen devices.

Chuck Gulash, Director, CSRC, said that this newly expanded mission will bring drivers and their vehicles increasingly work together in sharing more responsibilities on the road. He additionally added that the primary goal of safety research program is that incorporating more advanced safety technology in the automobiles that intend to save lives.

Active safety, driver distraction, risk traffic populations are the other focused research of the centre that effectively protect people from collisions and crashes. Toyota has taken its own pace in stepping into the new advanced security technology that will further more enhance its brand name.

How to avoid the risk of car theft / hijack

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Aug 262014

The National Insurance Crime Bureau reports that the number of cars being stolen since years had gradually increased top curve, in spite having all enhanced security features in automobiles. More than 100, 000 cars have been stolen every year and many of these never get recovered.

You can actually protect your sedans from getting stolen or being hijacked by following simple precautions.

Do not park your vehicle in strange environment for long hours that has been never used by people.

Make sure you lock all doors and windows before driving off.

Change your routes often when you travel to any regular place.

Adjust your mirrors in order to have optimal all-around view of the surroundings.

Drive in a centre lane keeping you away from pedestrians so that you can avoid situations like picking up hitchhikers.

Keep eye on things that are out of ordinary. If any vehicle follows you for thirty minutes in the same lane get alert and try connecting with crime prevention bureaus.

If any car has old registration number such as HSG 090 T, it is a fake one, try getting separated from those cars.

Vulnerable situations

By hitch-hikers – 3%

Victims sitting in parked cars-13%

At traffic lights- 10%

In front of private residences- 32%

On street parking- 17%

Pretending by minor accidents – 25%

Contact information

Call 10111 telephone number to get help from police if you find yourself in a hijack situation.

Make use of National Insurance Crime Bureau to view the database of stolen vehicles.

CPIC (Canadian Police Information Centre) – public can make use of their national database to see if a motor vehicle or property has been reported stolen.

Know how Cars get processed using chess principles

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Aug 232014

Many people are fond of using new technology automobiles as each upgrade has certain additional benefits. Now, get ready to know about the latest process that has been incorporated in the automotive system. The cars being operated with chess principles is what the recent news deals with. The approach is suggested aiming at maximizing the test coverage with minimal work load for test engineers.

Products before hitting the market pass through various scenarios where testing is considered as the major one among the process. Likewise, in automotive industry TestWeaver is the tool used to run and evaluate thousands of tests automatically. But, due to increased complexity in control software the testing and validation has become a very tedious process. In order to maximize test coverage with minimal workload for test engineers, chess principles have been used in the automotive transmission system.

The process is implemented in such a way that System Under Test (SUT) is made processed as playing chess in making the SUT to drive into a state that violates its specifications. The tester tracks the moves of those failed operation state and have a history of those moves and represents those as a failed test.

The method makes use of a component called instruments which implicitly carry the rules of the game. It processes the control actions which are legal in certain situations. To decide the best moves, chess computers just explore recursively all legal moves possible in the current state and test whether these lead to a goal state. By using this method bugs and design flaws are automatically detected.

TestWeaver intelligently analyses the past simulation results to search for violations of specifications and to maximize the test coverage. The coverage goal of TestWeaver is to reach every reachable discrete state in achieving the correct space. Thus, the automation testing process is made simple with minimal workload by implementing this chess principle.

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