“Externally mounted sensors significantly increase aerodynamic drag, particularly by increasing the proportion of interference drag within the total aerodynamic drag,” study author Yiping Wang said.

The sensors are often mounted in the car’s grille—sometimes even in the car’s emblem—or on its front bumpers. When these sensors can no longer tell what’s in front of them, they can shut ...

The Audi A4 provides one example that is fairly typical of the driver assistance systems currently available on luxury vehicles, and its sensor array is shown in Figure 1, along with details on which ...

We then explain the unique components of full electric and hybrid electric vehicles, and how in-vehicle and outside battery charging systems work. We reference all the sensors that are used for ...

Motorists are turning off key safety features they find annoying by pressing buttons on their vehicle dashboard.

The technique he chose for the task was to glue magnets onto the axles of the vehicle and monitor them with a hall effect sensor. Those sensors are finicky and a few problems during testing ...

Hyundai released a position statement this month on repairing front and rear bumpers with corner radar units or ultrasonic sensors.  Front and rear bumpers may have corner radar units mounted ...