The link (or not) between ADAS and autonomous

The link (or not) between ADAS and autonomous

The auto industry in 2016 is as dynamic as ever, suggesting a market with astonishing momentum. Buzz surrounds the coming launch of the Chevy Bolt, the first highway-capable EV with a 200-mile range. The internet is full of images of preproduction Bolts captured in the wild in southeast Michigan and beyond.

By 2020, Ford says it will have added 13 new EVs and that more than 40% of its global nameplates will be available in electrified versions. According to various estimates, between one and two million EVs will be sold worldwide between now and 2020. By then, the worldwide fleet of EVs and PHEVs will stand at 17 million, according to Juniper Research, with more than half of those vehicles in China. Tesla, it seems, is not alone in its mission to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy. Though don’t expect Elon Musk’s company to relinquish its hold on the world’s imagination anytime soon, based on the eye-popping number of pre-orders (more than 400,000) for its Model 3.

The centrality of the weight/cost problem in automotive design is probably one reason the big EDS tool vendors, Mentor among them, have remained more or less the same even as new automotive OEMs and brands have appeared on the world stage. The features demanded most — help reducing given-away circuits, minimizing heavy wires used in high voltage applications, reducing development time, offering a means to simulate/validate increasingly complex designs, delivering systems and wiring information to the service bay — are similar whether the customer is in the Silicon Valley or Detroit, Stuttgart or Shenzhen.

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