The discovery of bromine represents one of the first experimental evidences that elements could be grouped in families of similar properties. Transformation of the new element and its derivatives into a commercial reality had to wait until automobiles begun to be mass-produced. The pattern end use of bromine has reflected the changes in social appreciation of environmental protection and safety...

The present study compares the safety-related content of automobile advertising with government-sponsored crash test evaluations. It examines all major automakers and their respective divisions and observes the claims made regarding specific vehicle models in relation to their individual crash test scores. This comparison facilitates analysis regarding the relationship between automakers’ state...

So-called vehicle dynamics (or controllability and stability) refer to the "running, cornering and stopping" of automobiles, which are the most important and basic performance of automobiles. Therefore, many studies have been undertaken from several points of view all over the world. In this paper, our former studies, which focused on the analysis and modeling of vehicle and tire behavior, the ...

Presently there has been an exponential rise in the number of fast moving automobiles on the roads. There are therefore, justifying reasons for developing cost-effective, reliable intelligent control systems for the assistance of drivers to ensure safety of the drivers of the automobiles as well as the pedestrians and other vehicles moving on the roads. This paper presents a fuzzy logic based c...

The Taurus has a MacPherson strut type of suspension in the front and rear of the car, as shown in Figure 1. The various types of joints in the suspension are modeled with connector elements. These specialized elements provide an easy and versatile way to model physical mechanisms with point-to-point connections that can exhibit complex kinematic and kinetic relationships. A list of model joint...

Introduction With the onset of increasingly complex electrical systems, applications, and processing needs, the use of microcontrollers to handle operations has also increased significantly. Microcontroller applications are found in managing various electrical networks ranging from large equipment such as air conditioning units, mainframe computers, and airplane navigation systems, to smaller d...

Software update systems for automobiles can deliver significant benefits, but, if not implemented carefully, they could potentially incur serious security vulnerabilities. Previous solutions for securing software updates consider standard attacks and deploy widely understood security mechanisms, such as digital signatures for the software updates, and hardware security modules (HSM) to sign sof...