LONDON, 04 September 2020 /PRNewswire Policy/ —

Government funds project to develop an automotive cybersecurity assurance framework.

New autonomous and wireless connectivity in vehicles will provide many commercial opportunities for innovation. However, this automotive world will also prove attractive to smart criminals. Those using connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) need to know that they, their vehicles and personal data will be kept safe from cyber attack.

The government has responded by investing more than 800,000 pounds in a 1.5 million pounds collaborative project to develop an automotive cyber security assurance framework. It adopts an integrated set of standards for manufacturing innovation and assessment, with a rating system to build trust among consumers and insurers.

The 2 year 5StarS (Automotive Cybersecurity Through Assurance) project has had support from the Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles and Innovate UK. The 5StarS consortium came together in 2017 to address the issues around growing vehicle connectivity. It was clear that existing standards and regulations or even those in development did not offer consumers a way of making informed buying decisions based on vehicles’ cybersecurity resilience. Nor could insurers evaluate threats when pricing premiums.

To provide vehicle manufacturers with practical guidance and support, the 5StarS partners have devised a roadmap covering 3 specific areas – innovation, assessment and assurance rating. The project identified regulations, standards and best practice that should guide innovation and product development so that manufacturers can measure their vehicles’ resilience. They include ISO/SAE DIS 21434 (road vehicles — cybersecurity engineering) which is still under development. That, in turn, opens the way to independent assessment procedures and ultimately a risk-based system with a visible rating for insurers and consumers. The rating system will apply only to new vehicles.

If fully adopted by the automotive industry it will operate in much the same way as the existing Euro NCAP type ratings for vehicle safety, building trust in connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs) and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). The newest vehicles on sale are already equipped with keyless entry, cameras to aid parking and lane positioning, GPS positioning for satellite navigation systems, DAB radio, wifi and Bluetooth communications.

Demonstrating that appropriate security measures are in place can potentially create an entirely new revenue stream for the industry. Although the 5StarS project was funded by the government and the consortium partners are UK-based, the framework is designed to align to current and emerging international standards and best practice so that it can be applied internationally. This will assist vehicle manufacturers aiming to sell vehicles globally.

The next step is to run trials with vehicle manufacturers to validate the assurance framework against their vehicles and build upon the international interest received in the project to foster wider adoption.

SOURCE Innovate UK

LONDON, 04 September 2020 /PRNewswire Policy/ —

Government funds project to develop an automotive cybersecurity assurance framework.

New autonomous and wireless connectivity in vehicles will provide many commercial opportunities for innovation. However, this automotive world will also prove attractive to smart criminals. Those using connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) need to know that they, their vehicles and personal data will be kept safe from cyber attack.

The government has responded by investing more than 800,000 pounds in a 1.5 million pounds collaborative project to develop an automotive cyber security assurance framework. It adopts an integrated set of standards for manufacturing innovation and assessment, with a rating system to build trust among consumers and insurers.

The 2 year 5StarS (Automotive Cybersecurity Through Assurance) project has had support from the Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles and Innovate UK. The 5StarS consortium came together in 2017 to address the issues around growing vehicle connectivity. It was clear that existing standards and regulations or even those in development did not offer consumers a way of making informed buying decisions based on vehicles’ cybersecurity resilience. Nor could insurers evaluate threats when pricing premiums.

To provide vehicle manufacturers with practical guidance and support, the 5StarS partners have devised a roadmap covering 3 specific areas – innovation, assessment and assurance rating. The project identified regulations, standards and best practice that should guide innovation and product development so that manufacturers can measure their vehicles’ resilience. They include ISO/SAE DIS 21434 (road vehicles — cybersecurity engineering) which is still under development. That, in turn, opens the way to independent assessment procedures and ultimately a risk-based system with a visible rating for insurers and consumers. The rating system will apply only to new vehicles.

If fully adopted by the automotive industry it will operate in much the same way as the existing Euro NCAP type ratings for vehicle safety, building trust in connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs) and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). The newest vehicles on sale are already equipped with keyless entry, cameras to aid parking and lane positioning, GPS positioning for satellite navigation systems, DAB radio, wifi and Bluetooth communications.

Demonstrating that appropriate security measures are in place can potentially create an entirely new revenue stream for the industry. Although the 5StarS project was funded by the government and the consortium partners are UK-based, the framework is designed to align to current and emerging international standards and best practice so that it can be applied internationally. This will assist vehicle manufacturers aiming to sell vehicles globally.

The next step is to run trials with vehicle manufacturers to validate the assurance framework against their vehicles and build upon the international interest received in the project to foster wider adoption.

SOURCE Innovate UK

LONDON, 04 September 2020 /PRNewswire Policy/ —

Demonstration of collision avoidance system sees 2 vehicles steer around stationary car without human assistance.

A UK government-backed consortium has achieved a ‘world first’ by demonstrating a collision-avoidance system in which 2 vehicles co-operate by radio link to steer around a stationary car without human assistance.

The successful live demo at Bruntingthorpe Proving Ground in Leicestershire is a significant milestone in developing a driver aid to avoid multi-vehicle collisions, particularly motorway pile-ups.

It was the climax of a 32-month project called MuCCA (Multi-Car Collision Avoidance), led by Applus IDIADA and involving 5 other automotive industry, technology and research partners. This 4.6 million pounds project was jointly funded by the Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV) and delivered through Innovate UK.

There were 1,870 road deaths in the UK to June 2019 and human error is a factor in 95% of accidents.

Acting autonomously, vehicles equipped with MuCCA technology figure out between them what to do when confronted with an obstacle or a likely collision. If an accident is unavoidable, the MuCCA system will intervene to minimise injuries and damage. In normal traffic, the technology could help to reduce the bunching and congestion on motorways which is costly to the UK economy.

MuCCA incorporates 3 key elements:

– sensing of the immediate environment around the vehicle

– automatic steering as well as automatic braking

– live vehicle-to-vehicle radio messaging, communicating 50 times a second

The autonomous vehicles cooperate in real-time – something humans cannot do – and can manoeuvre to give another car the space to avoid an obstacle. With sophisticated machine learning algorithms developed at Cranfield University, MuCCA can even predict how non-autonomous vehicles with human drivers are likely to react. The next stage of development will focus on refining the control systems and extending simulation testing to more tricky scenarios and higher speeds.

SOURCE Innovate UK

LONDON, 04 September 2020 /PRNewswire Policy/ —

Demonstration of collision avoidance system sees 2 vehicles steer around stationary car without human assistance.

A UK government-backed consortium has achieved a ‘world first’ by demonstrating a collision-avoidance system in which 2 vehicles co-operate by radio link to steer around a stationary car without human assistance.

The successful live demo at Bruntingthorpe Proving Ground in Leicestershire is a significant milestone in developing a driver aid to avoid multi-vehicle collisions, particularly motorway pile-ups.

It was the climax of a 32-month project called MuCCA (Multi-Car Collision Avoidance), led by Applus IDIADA and involving 5 other automotive industry, technology and research partners. This 4.6 million pounds project was jointly funded by the Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV) and delivered through Innovate UK.

There were 1,870 road deaths in the UK to June 2019 and human error is a factor in 95% of accidents.

Acting autonomously, vehicles equipped with MuCCA technology figure out between them what to do when confronted with an obstacle or a likely collision. If an accident is unavoidable, the MuCCA system will intervene to minimise injuries and damage. In normal traffic, the technology could help to reduce the bunching and congestion on motorways which is costly to the UK economy.

MuCCA incorporates 3 key elements:

– sensing of the immediate environment around the vehicle

– automatic steering as well as automatic braking

– live vehicle-to-vehicle radio messaging, communicating 50 times a second

The autonomous vehicles cooperate in real-time – something humans cannot do – and can manoeuvre to give another car the space to avoid an obstacle. With sophisticated machine learning algorithms developed at Cranfield University, MuCCA can even predict how non-autonomous vehicles with human drivers are likely to react. The next stage of development will focus on refining the control systems and extending simulation testing to more tricky scenarios and higher speeds.

SOURCE Innovate UK

LONDON, 04 September 2020 /PRNewswire Policy/ —

Government-backed autonomous vehicles project has achieved its goal of sending a Nissan LEAF on a self-navigated ‘Grand Drive’.

The Grand Drive’s success highlights the UK as one of the best places in the world for the development and deployment of Connected and Autonomous Vehicle (CAV) technology.

The journey was completed at the end of November 2019, and there were 2 test engineers on board, constantly monitoring the vehicle’s actions to deliver a safe autonomous journey.

The project, which featured a range of partners led by Nissan UK, created 27 jobs over the course of the project and a further 20 have been added since as the partners continue to work together on commercialising the technology.

Nissan UK has since established an autonomous driving test facility at its R&D facility in Cranfield, with additional work and investment from Nissan Japan. Hitachi Europe has also set up an AV research operation in the UK while HORIBA MIRA has continued to evolve its test facilities at Nuneaton in Warwickshire. Cranfield and Leeds universities have expanded their AV research capabilities too.

The project drew from the partners’ expertise in a range of R&D and testing disciplines to develop an advanced, autonomous vehicle control system that emulates the natural driving style of a human at the wheel. Using machine learning and artificial intelligence developed by Hitachi, and other technologies developed by Nissan, the objective was to create a comfortable and familiar experience for customers in a new, autonomous world.

As well as development of autonomous control systems, the project covered cyber security, human interaction and public acceptance, public road trials and demonstrations in a variety of settings, including country roads, high-speed roundabouts, A-roads and motorways in live traffic.

The 100% electric Nissan LEAFs used as the test vehicles featured GPS, radar, LIDAR (laser scanners) and camera technologies to build a perception of the world around it. The system then made decisions about how to navigate roads and obstacles encountered on a journey, directing the car to change lanes, merge with traffic and stop and start when necessary at roundabouts and traffic signals.

SOURCE Innovate UK

LONDON, 04 September 2020 /PRNewswire Policy/ —

Government-backed autonomous vehicles project has achieved its goal of sending a Nissan LEAF on a self-navigated ‘Grand Drive’.

The Grand Drive’s success highlights the UK as one of the best places in the world for the development and deployment of Connected and Autonomous Vehicle (CAV) technology.

The journey was completed at the end of November 2019, and there were 2 test engineers on board, constantly monitoring the vehicle’s actions to deliver a safe autonomous journey.

The project, which featured a range of partners led by Nissan UK, created 27 jobs over the course of the project and a further 20 have been added since as the partners continue to work together on commercialising the technology.

Nissan UK has since established an autonomous driving test facility at its R&D facility in Cranfield, with additional work and investment from Nissan Japan. Hitachi Europe has also set up an AV research operation in the UK while HORIBA MIRA has continued to evolve its test facilities at Nuneaton in Warwickshire. Cranfield and Leeds universities have expanded their AV research capabilities too.

The project drew from the partners’ expertise in a range of R&D and testing disciplines to develop an advanced, autonomous vehicle control system that emulates the natural driving style of a human at the wheel. Using machine learning and artificial intelligence developed by Hitachi, and other technologies developed by Nissan, the objective was to create a comfortable and familiar experience for customers in a new, autonomous world.

As well as development of autonomous control systems, the project covered cyber security, human interaction and public acceptance, public road trials and demonstrations in a variety of settings, including country roads, high-speed roundabouts, A-roads and motorways in live traffic.

The 100% electric Nissan LEAFs used as the test vehicles featured GPS, radar, LIDAR (laser scanners) and camera technologies to build a perception of the world around it. The system then made decisions about how to navigate roads and obstacles encountered on a journey, directing the car to change lanes, merge with traffic and stop and start when necessary at roundabouts and traffic signals.

SOURCE Innovate UK

RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif., Sept. 4, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — There are humble heroes all around us—the ones you don’t hear about, who forego sleep and work impossible hours in constant danger, the ones who battle on the front lines of the pandemic and put themselves last to take care of us first.

There are many words to describe them—professional, compassionate, selfless, dedicated, brave, tireless—but we simply call them Heroes.

At Dunlop Motorcycle Tires, we want to honor these Humble Heroes by giving you the opportunity to nominate a healthcare worker or first responder who went above and beyond during the pandemic, and we’ll reward one individual with a new 2020 Harley-Davidson® XL1200 Sportster Roadster™.

Dunlop has a special appreciation for those who stepped up during the pandemic. Our factory in Buffalo, NY was designated essential early in the crisis, and our associates showed up, masked up and continued to do what they do best every day—build premium tires for the American motorcyclist.

Harley-Davidson’s Sportster Roadster was a natural for this project. Dunlop has been a trusted original-equipment tire supplier to Harley-Davidson for more than 35 years—over ten million Dunlop tires have rolled off the motor company assembly line—and the iconic Sportster is popular among new riders and offers many customizing variations.

To emphasize this, Dunlop Motorcycle Tires is collaborating with long-time partner Roland Sands Design (RSD) to create custom variations of the Sportster over the coming months featuring different Dunlop tires. The winner of this contest will receive a new 2020 Harley-Davidson XL1200 Sportster Roadster in stock condition. RSD’s builds will showcase what a great platform the stock Sportster is for customizing, and you will be able to follow along through Dunlop and RSD social networks: #humbleheroes, #wearedunlop, #ridedunlop, @rolandsandsdesigns, @ridedunlop.

«Nobody has seen a crisis with the global effects of Covid-19 before, and hopefully nobody ever will again,» said Mike Buckley, Senior VP, Sales and Marketing, Dunlop Motorcycle Tires. «Hard to imagine how much worse this could have been without the health care heroes and first responders on the front lines every day and night. The Humble Heroes Project is our way of giving a little back and saying thanks for all you have done.»

Click here to view the contest information for The Humble Heroes Project.

SOURCE Dunlop Motorcycle Tires

DAVIE, Fla., Sept. 4, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Gigi Stetler, CEO of RV Sales of Broward and founder of the non-profit RV Advisor Consumer Association (RVACA), donated an RV to YouTube stars and full-time RVers the RV Odd Couple as part of RVACA’s new initiative RVs for Autism.

After the success of RVACA’s coronavirus assistance funds in helping frontline workers, the new RVs for Autism fund will provide families with autistic children free RVs so they can travel safely in a familiar environment while introducing their children to different parts of the country.

This is an important cause to the RV Odd Couple, John and Mercedes Condon, as their daughter, 4-year-old Sage, was recently diagnosed with autism.

«We feel like we have a responsibility to foster awareness of how therapeutic RVing is for autistic children and their families,» said John and Mercedes Condon. «Many people think that children with autism need the exact same routine every single day, but the reality is that preparing our child for real life means that she needs to be able to handle change and RVing offers the familiarity of home with the therapy of travel.»

When Stetler heard about their daughter’s diagnosis and how RV travel could be an effective form of therapy, Stetler knew she had the perfect way to help.

«We were initially talking about how we could partner to protect RV consumers’ rights through RV Advisor, but when they told me about their daughter’s diagnosis and that they were looking to get an RV, I immediately said ‘I have an RV for you,'» said Stetler.

Without delay, Stetler began preparing a Class C RV for donation with bunkbeds for Sage and a master bedroom for John and Mercedes. Yesterday, September 3rd, the RV Odd Couple picked up their RV and filmed a reveal video for their nearly 100,000 subscribers.

«I’m excited for them to be able to share these camping experiences with their daughter knowing that she’ll always have a familiar place to call home,» said Stetler.

To donate to the RVs for Autism Fund or to apply for an RV, please visit here.

About Gigi Stetler

A fearless entrepreneur, Gigi Stetler created and leads the first female-owned RV company in the United States, RV Sales of Broward. With more than 30 years of experience in the industry, she is one of a handful of top RV experts in the country. Stetler also launched and runs The RV Advisor– an online platform to effectively connect millions of RV owners, dealers, and service centers that is considered the «Angie’s List» of the RV industry. Stetler is also the founder of the non-profit RV Advisor Consumer Association (RVACA), which provides RVs to healthcare workers who need a safe space to quarantine and isolate during the COVID-19 pandemic.

SOURCE RV Sales of Broward

COSTA MESA, Calif., Sept. 4, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Travel Costa Mesa invites visitors to take a road trip or experience a staycation during Labor Day weekend. With warm weather, Costa Mesa’s cool breezes are the perfect way to beat the heat and change up the day-to-day routine. Visitors can feel confident coming to stay when considering the safety and cleanliness of Costa Mesa hotels. Whether traveling as a family, with a companion or making a solo trip, Costa Mesa welcomes visitors to create their escape with hotel deals as low as $75. NOTE: Masks are required in Costa Mesa.

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Things to do Labor Day weekend
South Coast Plaza, the largest shopping destination on the west coast has reopened its doors. With hundreds of specialty boutiques, brands like Prada, Hermes and Gucci, plus more than 20 restaurants offering al fresco dining, including those helmed by celebrity chefs, a day at South Coast Plaza is a great way to beat the heat. For shoppers seeking a more personalized service, the recently opened Pavilion at South Coast Plaza features 14 private, open-air suites for shopping by appointment only. Masks are required and social distancing has been implemented throughout the center. Read more about South Coast Plaza’s safety measures.

September 4, 5 and 6: The OC Fair Food Drive-Thru, Friday and Saturday from noon to 8 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 6 p.m. For the foodies out there or those that missed attending the county fairs this summer, this is a perfect opportunity to enjoy the nostalgic treats like giant turkey legs, hot dog or cheese on a stick, roasted corn and all the deep-fried favorites, like Oreo cookies and Snickers bars. Check to the full menu and details to join the fun.

September 5: From 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., explore the Certified Farmers Market at SOCO and The OC Mix. Shop for exotic fruits, a variety of locally grown vegetables, free-range eggs, meats and nuts as well as local vendors selling soaps and jewelry. SOCO and The OC Mix also features a brand-new outdoor dining garden. Restaurants like Greenleaf Kitchen and Cocktails or Shuck Oyster Bar offer to-go meals and Portola Coffee and Birdy Bowl Juicery and great breakfast spots.

September 6: The OC Maker’s Mart at The LAB Anti-Mall from noon to 4 p.m. will feature artists, crafters and creative small business owners from all over Orange County. This outdoor shopping and dining spot features various retailers as well as plenty of restaurants with outdoor dining, a coffee shop and brewery.

Hit the beach
Situated close to the Pacific Coast, two popular beaches near Costa Mesa are Huntington Beach and Newport Beach. It’s just a short drive, and each location features miles of sandy beaches and a harbor where visitors can rent stand-up paddle boards, kayaks, electric boats, or just relax and enjoy the coastal breezes. Bike rentals and maps around Costa Mesa are also available and can take you to the beach.

For more ideas, whether traveling with family or friends, or even on a solo outing, Travel Costa Mesa has created itineraries to help anyone plan a few days to take a clean break to Costa Mesa.
Itineraries:
–Solo travel
–Traveling with pets
–Family travel
–Traveling as a couple

Travel Costa Mesa’s events calendar is updated regularly with activities happening both in the city and virtually.

Editor’s Note: Access more photos here.

SOURCE Travel Costa Mesa