Today's passenger vehicles can utilize about 70 onboard computers (ECUs, actuators, and so forth). So let's consider this group an extended family, and just like any family, communication means a lot.

Electronic control units (ECUs) in modern vehicles are all linked together via various communication interfaces. The information, which each ECU needs to function correctly, is received from other ...

Car thieves have come up with yet another way to steal your car, and this one is rather creative. We’ll refer to it as “headlight hacking,” but as Dr. Ken Tindell of Canis Automotive Labs describes in ...

Minimizing energy consumption has become a major need for any new product design, including industrial and automotive systems that use the CAN bus. One way to reduce system energy consumption is to ...