Bernhard Kockoth’s Post

It's on .. for the fans of burnt rubber and 50% methanol fuel. Takes me back to the roaring 80s when I enjoyed Formula One with 6-speed manual in Monaco ..

This weekend.. I took a trip to Lower Saxony? nope, here a part of Northern Germany test equipment came to Karlsruhe to check for interoperability in KIT connected vehicle technology test field.

One for the weekend: I grew up in the countryside, in our village kids of all ages used to walk or ride the bicycle to school. Cars were tiny compared to todays 2-ton monsters and car users were as much in danger as pedestrians and cyclists. My kids grew up in the city and we live within walking distance to our schools. But here .. too many other kids are "safely" SUV'd to school. Guess what, SUV use near schools correlates with accidents. Und für meine deutschen Follower: Katja Diehl haut heute in dieselbe Kerbe: "Alle 20 Minuten wird ein Kind auf deutschen Straßen in das hineingezogen, was wir "Verkehrsunfälle" nennen."

One for the weekend: building roads for everyone is a thing, finally. And .. getting vias for pedestrians and cyclists right, is not a god-given gift for every traffic engineer. Even in my bicycle-friendly city of Karlsruhe, I know of one corner that needed not one, but two costly corrections until cyclists were happy (and safe!). I guess the initial plan was done by someone who never touched a bicycle. Dear traffic engineers, when doing plans for cyclists, ask an experienced cyclist first. I survived 200.000+ kilometers riding bicycle, and I count on many more!

Scouting is in my genes. Here my "location scout" tells me the picture was taken in Birmingham, MI - a posh place in the Detroit metro area. All the best to this new endeavour, joining software architectures may bring new challenges.

Yesterday I joined the Mobility Symposium at the SEA:ME lab and 42 Wolfsburg where I help out from time to time as experienced Fellow from the automotive industry. Now the first year got finished by a group of very motivated students from Europe and Korea, now trained with practical experience in embedded systems, autonomous driving and software engineering. The coming year sees the open source curriculum from SEA:ME at new locations in Korea and Portugal. Also the SEA:ME content gets extended to better cover safety critical software, cloud attachment and cyber security. As we used to say during my days at QNX: "There is no safety without security."

Last week we were in Stuttgart for the european edition of the ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle Technology Expo. Thank you for everyone who came by to talk with ViGEM GmbH about high performance data logging. Next stop .. California. See you in San Jose?!

First day at the autonomous vehicle technology expo in Stuttgart. do not fear the high waters, the fair is next to the airport, high above the Neckar.

It's great to be back at the ADAS & ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle Technology Expo Europe 2024 in Stuttgart next week! This year ViGEM GmbH has a couple of new offerings to reveal .. of which I may report at the end of .. next week. You do not want to wait? - Come and see us at booth 6528! #avt_expo_europe #vigem