Diesel is one of the fuels used in automobiles. But diesel is often adulterated with Kerosene which harms the engine and reduces the life of automobiles. An electronic technique has been developed to determine the adulteration in diesel by kerosene, in which the light is passed in an optical fiber, the cladding of which is removed over a small area, where the evanescent wave interacts with the ...

This paper studies the within-model-year pricing, production, and inventory management of new automobiles. Using new monthly data on U.S. transaction prices, we document that, for the typical vehicle, prices fall over the model year at a 9.0 percent annual rate. Concurrently, both sales and inventories are hump shaped. To explain these time series, we formulate an industry model for new automob...

The aerodynamic characteristics directly affect driving characteristics, stability, operation, oil consumption, and safety of automobiles. The aerodynamic analyses of automobiles, such as the virtual wind tunnel experiment simulation, based on finite element methods have provided useful theoretical reference to automobile bodywork design. In this study, the air flow vector variation and distrib...

It is becoming clear that location-aware intelligent transportation systems will be one of the most promising upcoming applications for next generation vehicles. The driving force behind this is the introduction of pervasive high performance wireless networks and location sensing technologies, such as GPS and roadside detection systems. Intelligent transportation systems utilise intervehicle co...

Gesture interfaces are gaining relevance for human-machine communication, since it is expected that they make interaction more intuitive. Particularly vision based approaches are widely preferred. This paper describes a novel vision based real-time gesture recognition system, designed for operating in an automotive environment. It is used within an application for retrieving traffic news and e-...

More than a century after the introduction of incandescent lighting and half a century after the introduction of fluorescent lighting, solid-state light sources are revolutionizing an increasing number of applications. Whereas the efficiency of conventional incandescent and fluorescent lights is limited by fundamental factors that cannot be overcome, the efficiency of solid-state sources is lim...