Links of the week #42

Automotive

• The China Cliff for Foreign Carmakers (Sep. 2024). "Will there be any foreign automakers left in China five years from now?". On the same topic, China Is Done With Global Carmakers written by Michael Dunne a few months ago

• Defining SDVs beyond just vehicles (Oct. 2024), by PwC Japan. I could agree with this attempt at defining the concept of SDV, even if the notions of "inside and outside of mobility" are not really clear for me :

Unlike SAE*2 levels of autonomous driving or vehicle electrification (HEV, PHEV, BEV, FCEV), the definition of SDV (Software Defined Vehicle) remains ambiguous, with varying interpretations depending on the perspective of the key players involved. Although the term ‘vehicle’ is part of SDV, it includes not only the mobility itself but also both the inside and outside of mobility (in-car/out-car), as well as the concept of delivering value to users derived from these elements. Therefore, we define SDV as ‘an ecosystem that continuously provides new value and experiences to users by updating features through software at its core, connecting both the inside and outside of mobility’.

Gen AI and coding

• Everything I built with Claude Artifacts this week (Oct. 2024). Through this post shared by I don't remember who, I discovered Simon Willison's amazing production : blog, github, tools, TIL ("things I've learned"), Datasette project. His days are obviously longer than mine ... or maybe he's just simply much much better than I am :)

Datasette is a tool for exploring and publishing data. It helps people take data of any shape, analyze and explore it, and publish it as an interactive website and accompanying API. Datasette is aimed at data journalists, museum curators, archivists, local governments, scientists, researchers and anyone else who has data that they wish to share with the world.

• OpenHands: a platform for software development agents powered by AI (formerly OpenDevin). "OpenHands agents can do anything a human developer can: modify code, run commands, browse the web, call APIs, and yes—even copy code snippets from StackOverflow."

Robotics

• A New Local Planner (Oct. 2024), by Michael Ferguson. For differential wheeled robots.

MBSE

• Behavior Diagrams for Model-Based Systems Engineering , a series of short videos by mathworks.com

Julia

• Julia for Engineers: Part 2 - Modeling (Oct. 2024)

GNSS

• Demystifying GNSS Corrections (Sep. 2024), by insidegnss.com

Utilities

• WBO, a free and open-source online collaborative whiteboard