The third and final challenge, held in 2014, will produce a full vehicle design.
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Mr. DAVID SEDGWICK (Automotive News): They have a big problem getting on the cutting edge of vehicle design.
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Test Track guests enter an all-new, interactive pre-show area that includes concept cars like the Miray roadster and the Chevrolet EN-V, as well as dynamic media displays that include models and sketches of vehicle design possibilities.
Expect styling to come to the fore, as vehicle design is less influenced by safety considerations like visibility, window placement, strength and stiffness of materials, bumpers, crumple zones, collapsible steering columns, air bags, seat belts, and padding.
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RCA's vehicle-design department, originally started in 1969, and still the world's only postgraduate course devoted to the discipline.
The vehicle-design department points out that its students come from all over the world, so graduates get a feel for working in a global context from day one.
Many commentators have speculated that the Ares 1 will be cancelled, but they suspect Orion will live on, perhaps launching on a vehicle with a design which relies more heavily on space shuttle technology.
Exa makes simulation software that vehicle makers use to design and develop cars, trucks and trains.
Now the company will design a vehicle to help Golden Spike achieve its goal of establishing routine commercial transportation of people to the moon and back by the end of the decade.
The canceled Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle would have achieved high speed in the water by using a planing design that enabled the vehicle to ride on top of the sea.
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The Web community also participated in the design of several vehicle components, like the doors.
But the parts suppliers are seldom involved early on in the conception and design of the vehicle.
Today, a handful of key people have the final say on the design of any given vehicle.
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This reinforces the overall design philosophy behind the vehicle with a "dropping line" that extends from the headlamp to the rear wheel arch.
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Is your community management program in place as a PR or promotional vehicle, or do you actively design and manage it as customer insight and service outpost as well?
Airtrax's wheel is part of the design for a new robotic vehicle that can inspect cars' undersides to locate bombs.
The United States Department of Defense wants members of the public to unleash their inner Tony Stark and help design a new amphibious infantry vehicle.
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Despite meagre resources, the duo have devised a creative flower-petal design that will right their vehicle if it flips over during the race, in much the same way that an insect gets back on its feet when turned over.
The vehicle merges the clean lines of German Volkswagen design DNA with the masculine character of an American SUV.
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But the design that is best to win that prize is not necessarily the best design to operate as a commercial vehicle for space tourism, where having low recurring costs is more vital.
AeroVironment (AV), the official home charging-dock provider for the Nissan LEAF and co-developer of the first modern-day electric vehicle, the GM Impact, will partner with Hawaiian Electric Company (HECO) to design and build public and semi-private charging stations at convenient locations for electric vehicle owners, including high-rise buildings, resorts and rental car facilities.
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But Germany, the other major player within Esa, wants the current vehicle upgraded first before moving to a completely fresh design.
Boeing has progressed to final design stages for its CST-100 vehicle, a capsule that will fly atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket, which has a proven track record launching unmanned satellites.
The airflow regulating fin merges with the falling roofline in a pronounced rear spoiler integrated within the boot lid, seamlessly fusing design and aerodynamic elements to give the vehicle its distinctive, coupe proportions.
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For instance, the plan calls for spending several years researching a new heavy lift launch vehicle for deep space exploration before committing to a design a stretched-out schedule that would likely produce little new technology but deprive engineering teams and production workers of anything to do for the better part of a decade.
Some of that work is to design navigational and warning devices for a safer vehicle.
Together, they edited the images down to a common look, or design language in their lingo, for each vehicle.
Although, we should stress that a huge amount of design effort has gone into making sure this vehicle stays flat on the ground.
And I think that while there will be, I believe, strong and strict enforcement, I also believe that the design of the bill is to provide a vehicle for people who are here who want to work and play by the rules to have a way of getting that done.
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