Bitcoin Prices Are Soaring and These Two Companies May See Their Shares Surge

Bitcoin prices soared Thursday on positive news about scaling up its market.

Engineers Eye Adaptive Cruise Control as Platooning Enabler

A new study found that adaptive cruise control systems can help maintian mobility, safety, driver comfort, and fuel consumption in platooning operations. Photo: Peloton

Is a new, expanded role for adaptive cruise control systems on the horizon? A recent technical paper by engineers Zijia Zhong, Joyoung Lee and Liuhui Zhao at the Newark College of Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, published by the Transportation Research Board suggests so.

According to the paper, titled "Multiobjective Optimization Framework for Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control Vehicles in the Automated Vehicle Platooning Environment," cooperative adaptive cruise control has been proven in tests to be an effect means of automated longitudinal control technology with possible vehicle platooning applications in the near future.

The paper's authors have proposed an automated longitudinal control framework based on multiobjective optimization (MOOP) for CACC by taking into consideration four vehicle optimization onbjectives: mobility, safety, driver comfort, and fuel consumption.

The paper notes that of the target time headways that have been tested, the proposed CACC platoon control method achieved the best performance with 0.9- and 0.6-s target time headways. Compared with a non-optimization-based CACC, the MOOP CACC achieved 98%, 93%, 42%, and 33% objective value reductions of time headway deviation, unsafe condition, jitter, and instantaneous fuel consumption, respectively.

In comparison with a single-objective-optimization-based approach, which optimized only one of the four proposed objectives, it was shown that the MOOP-based CACC maintained a good balance between all of the objective functions and achieved Pareto optimality for the entire platoon.

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Trump and Putin reportedly may have met even more times a…

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Honeywell beats profit estimates, raises full-year forecasts

Sales in Honeywell's aerospace business, its biggest, fell about 3 percent to $3.67 billion in the second quarter ended June 30, smaller than the company's forecast of a decline of 5 to 7 percent. Margins in the unit rose to 22.3 percent from 20.9 percent, Honeywell, which makes products ranging from aircraft engines to handheld barcode scanners, said. The unit, which makes jet engines and provides spare parts, repair, overhaul and maintenance services, benefited from strength in its commercial aviation after-sales business and growth in U.S. defense volumes, Honeywell said.

Arista loses bid to lift import ban in Cisco battle

The U.S. International Trade Commission refused to rescind its May 4 ruling that found Arista's switches infringed two Cisco patents and banned Arista from importing the infringing products into the United States. After the ITC released that decision, a different agency, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, said the two Cisco patents are invalid.

FleetPride Expands with New Orleans Location

FleetPride employees celebrate the opening of the company's first New Orleans branch.

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"Adding New Orleans to the FleetPride footprint represents our commitment to growth," said Jason Price, FleetPride senior vice president of operations. "The five team members at this location represent nearly 60 years of combined experience in the heavy-duty parts industry and are committed to serving the needs of the customer."

The new branch is located at 6500 Powell Street in New Orleans. An official grand opening ceremony is scheduled for Thursday, September 14.

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