Volvo Cars unveils a major safety improvement to the safety belt. The new multi-adaptive safety belt is a world-first technology aimed to further enhance safety for everyone in real-world traffic situations.
Image: Volvo Cars read more ... Catalonia has hosted the pilot trials of the European Selfy project, coordinated by the Eurecat technology centre, demonstrating the effectiveness of new self-assessment and self-protection tools designed to boost the resilience and cybersecurity of autonomous and connected vehicles in smart cities. The demonstrations, also repeated in Vienna, Austria, identified more than 95 % of vulnerable vehicles and over 90 % of the security breaches.
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read more ... Foretellix announces a significant expansion of its Foretify platform, enabling Autonomous Vehicle developers to slash development time in half and save hundreds of millions of dollars. The emergence of the physical AI frontier presents AV developers with opportunities to accelerate the step up to fully autonomous vehicles. However, three key challenges must be overcome in order to benefit from the speed of development that AI affords.
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read more ... Qualcomm Incorporated announced that its subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., has completed the acquisition of Autotalks, an industry leader in direct vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication solutions. V2X technologies, which enable communication between vehicles and their surroundings, have become increasingly critical for enhancing road safety and transportation efficiency.
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read more ... Six models from four different brands earn 2025 TOP SAFETY PICK+ awards in the latest batch of vehicle ratings from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. The Hyundai Elantra, Kia K4 and Toyota Prius are all small cars. The Hyundai Sonata is a midsize car, the Toyota bZ4X is an electric small SUV, and the Nissan Murano is a midsize SUV. All are 2025 models.
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read more ... The Dummy.Crashtest.Conference. is the ideal event for professionals working with crash testing, dummies, and measurement technology. It's specifically tailored for employees from the automotive and supplier industries, aerospace, research institutions, military protection system suppliers, metrology specialists, high-speed camera manufacturers, and universities.
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read more ... As the city bus and coach industry undergoes its greatest transformation since the advent of the internal combustion engine, ZF presents its latest advancements at the UITP Summit Hamburg 2025. With a key focus on setting new industry benchmarks for efficiency and best Total Cost of Ownership, ZF will present how it is driving change through the development of cleaner, safer and more intelligent bus technologies at UITP. These include its next-generation family of electric central and axle drives, a new air compressor, intelligent ADAS safety solutions as well as technical advancements in the field of automated driving.
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read more ... The New Car Assessment Programme for Latin America and the Caribbean, Latin NCAP, publishes the third crash tests result for 2025 with one star for the Peugeot 2008. So far, the 9 Stellantis Group models tested by Latin NCAP under the latest protocol in effect since 2020, have not managed to obtain more than two stars.
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read more ... NVIDIA was named an Autonomous Grand Challenge winner at the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) conference, held in Nashville, Tennessee. The announcement was made at the Embodied Intelligence for Autonomous Systems on the Horizon Workshop.
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read more ... Euro NCAP signs a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Data for Road Safety (DFRS) during the 16th ITS European Congress 2025, hosted by the City of Seville and ERTICO-ITS Europe. The MoU formalises collaboration to enhance vehicle safety assessments through the integration of real-time road hazard data.
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read more ... U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy announced that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will further accelerate the safe development of automated vehicles by streamlining the Part 555 exemption process. The exemption will continue to allow manufacturers to sell up to 2,500 motor vehicles per year that do not fully comply with the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards.
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read more ... Motorcycles and other two-wheeled vehicles account for a significant share of serious road traffic injuries and fatalities worldwide - especially in low- and middle-income countries, where they are often used as everyday transport. A new research collaboration is now launching to develop principles for a safe transport system for motorcyclists, with the goal of significantly reducing deaths and serious injuries.
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read more ... Driver fatigue, inadequate company oversight and a critical lack of safe truck parking along the National Highway System led to a fatal collision on Interstate 70 in Highland, Illinois, the NTSB determined at a board meeting. As a result of this investigation, the NTSB is issuing 11 new recommendations and 2 reiterated recommendations to USDOT, the FMCSA, Greyhound Lines, the National Coalition on Truck Parking, the American Bus Association and the United Motorcoach Association.
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20th PraxisConference Pedestrian Protection 2025 25.06.2025 - 26.06.2025 in Bergisch Gladbach
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Industry Experts |
EUR 1920 |
NCAP - New Car Assessment Programs: Tests, Assessment Methods, Ratings 01.07.2025 - 02.07.2025 in Alzenau
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Direktor & Professor Andre Seeck - BASt - Federal Highway and Transport Research Institute |
EUR 1750 |
5. Dummy.Crashtest.Conference. 02.07.2025 - 03.07.2025 in Münster
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Industry Experts |
EUR 440 |
Introduction to Passive Safety of Vehicles 14.07.2025 - 17.07.2025 Online
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Ralf Reuter - carhs.training gmbh |
EUR 1450 |
Automotive Safety Summit Shanghai 2025 16.07.2025 - 17.07.2025 in Shanghai, China
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Industry Experts |
EUR 635 |
Design and Simulation of Vehicle Vibration 16.07.2025 in Alzenau
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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dietmar Jennewein - University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt |
EUR 890 |
SafetyUpDate Japan 2025 22.07.2025 - 23.07.2025 in Tokyo, Japan
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Industry Experts |
JPY 79000 |
Crash Safety of Hybrid and Electric Vehicles 28.07.2025 - 31.07.2025 Online
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Rainer Justen - Mercedes-Benz AG |
EUR 1450 |
Pedestrian Protection - Development Strategies 05.08.2025 - 07.08.2025 Online
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Maren Finck - carhs.training gmbh |
EUR 1450 |
NCAP - New Car Assessment Programs: Tests, Assessment Methods, Ratings 25.08.2025 - 28.08.2025 Online
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Direktor & Professor Andre Seeck - BASt - Federal Highway and Transport Research Institute |
EUR 1450 |
Crash-Course Additive Manufacturing 01.09.2025 in Alzenau
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Prof. Dr. Fabian Riß - Rosenheim Technical University of Applied Sciences |
EUR 890 |
Implementation of Additive Manufacturing Processes in Corporate Environments 02.09.2025 - 03.09.2025 in Alzenau
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Prof. Dr. Fabian Riß - Rosenheim Technical University of Applied Sciences |
EUR 1450 |
Design for Additive Manufacturing 04.09.2025 - 05.09.2025 in Alzenau
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Prof. Dr. Fabian Riß - Rosenheim Technical University of Applied Sciences |
EUR 1450 |
Pedestrian Protection Workshop Vehicle Mark-Up 08.09.2025 in Bergisch Gladbach
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BGS Böhme & Gehring GmbH |
EUR 1150 |
Pedestrian Protection Workshop Testing 09.09.2025 - 10.09.2025 in Bergisch Gladbach
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BGS Böhme & Gehring GmbH |
EUR 1960 |
Pedestrian Protection Workshop aPLI 11.09.2025 - 12.09.2025 in Bergisch Gladbach
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BGS Böhme & Gehring GmbH |
EUR 1960 |
Introduction to Passive Safety of Vehicles 16.09.2025 - 17.09.2025 in Alzenau
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Ralf Reuter - carhs.training gmbh |
EUR 1450 |
Material Models of Metals for Crash Simulation 16.09.2025 - 17.09.2025 Online
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Dr.-Ing. Helmut Gese - MATFEM Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH |
EUR 890 |
Dummy Basics 16.09.2025 - 17.09.2025 in Bergisch Gladbach
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BGS Böhme & Gehring GmbH |
EUR 1850 |
Whiplash Testing and Evaluation in Rear Impacts 18.09.2025 in Alzenau
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Thomas Frank - LEAR Corporation GmbH |
EUR 890 |
NCAP - New Car Assessment Programs: Tests, Assessment Methods, Ratings 23.09.2025 - 24.09.2025 in Alzenau
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Direktor & Professor Andre Seeck - BASt - Federal Highway and Transport Research Institute |
EUR 1450 |
Pedestrian Protection - Test Procedures 23.09.2025 - 25.09.2025 in Bergisch Gladbach
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BGS Böhme & Gehring GmbH |
EUR 2520 |
Simulation for Automated Vehicles - Introduction to Scenarios, ODDs and Validation 25.09.2025 - 26.09.2025 in Alzenau
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Dr. Andreas Kuhn - Andata Entwicklungstechnologie GmbH |
EUR 1450 |
Basics of Homologation 26.09.2025 Online
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Christian Radt - EDAG Engineering GmbH |
EUR 415 |
Virtual Testing for Vehicle Safety Assessment in Consumer Protection Tests and Regulations
29.09.2025 - 30.09.2025 in Alzenau
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Dr.-Ing. Andre Eggers - BASt - Federal Highway and Transport Research Institute |
EUR 1450 |
NVH - Background, Practice and Simulation Methodology 29.09.2025 - 02.10.2025 Online
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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dietmar Jennewein - Darmstadt UAS, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alexander Zopp - RheinMain UAS |
EUR 1450 |
Dummy Training BioRID II 30.09.2025 - 01.10.2025 in Bergisch Gladbach
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BGS Böhme & Gehring GmbH |
EUR 1850 |
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