Abstract The luxury car market has demanding product development standards aimed at providing state-of-the-art features in the automotive domain. Handling performance is amongst most important properties that must be assessed when developing a new model. In this work, we analyse problem of predicting subjective evaluations automobiles handling performances from objective records driving session...

The use of airbags into automobiles has significantly improved the safety of the occupants. Unfortunately, when airbags are deployed in the case of a crash, they can also cause fatal injuries if the occupant is a child smaller (in weight) than a typical 6 year old. In response to this, The National Highway Transportation and Safety Administration (NHTSA) has mandated that, starting in the 2006 ...

The destructive surge transient response is an expected phenomenon on a turbo charged automobile. Therefore a new intelligent controller to prevent the surge phenomenon to prolong the life cycle of modern turbo charged automobiles is proposed in this paper. In order to do so, the surge boundary for a particular turbo charger in a specific automobile must be determined first. A new systematic wa...

In Japan, the number of automobiles has exceeded thirty million and the number of driver's license holders reached thirty-five million (approximately thirty-five percent of the total population) at the end of 1976. Automobile traffic in many cities has been increasing rapidly year by year. Automobiles and trucks, at present in Japan, perform the most important part of a means for transporting p...