Dr. Rainer Holve speaking at Automotive Megatrends USA 2012: Elektrobit and the Future of Automotive Navigation Systems
EB (Elektrobit) will discuss “Driving Technology Forward: Navigation, Added Value for Driver Assistance Systems” at the Automotive Megatrends USA 2012 conference in the Detroit area. The three-day program brings together leading industry speakers to discuss future passenger-car safety, in-car connectivity and electrification technologies.
Who:
Dr. Rainer Holve, vice president and general manager of automotive software for Elektrobit Automotive Inc., based in suburban Detroit.
When:
4:45 p.m., Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Where:
The Henry, Fairlane Plaza, 300 Town Center Drive, Dearborn, MI 48126
More:
EB, a leading developer of cutting-edge embedded technology solutions for the automotive and wireless industries, is developing next-generation navigation systems with a variety of new driver-assistance features.
Dr. Holve will discuss the company’s latest advancements in advanced traffic technologies, “smart” navigation and driver-assistance systems.
Navigation systems today are intended to bring drivers to their destinations as smoothly and safely as possible. But this is just the beginning. Additional details about the driving environment and suggested routes can provide car owners with “valuable” new information as well. New safety functions to avoid accidents also are being developed. Nearly one-fourth of all traffic accidents involving personal injury are due to inappropriate speed, improper street use or passing maneuvers. Many crashes could be avoided if drivers were warned of tight curves or had lane-change information.
About the speaker:
Dr. Rainer Holve is an Elektrobit Automotive Inc. vice president and general manager of automotive software for Elektrobit Automotive Inc. based in Farmington Hills, Michigan.
Holve joined Elektrobit Automotive GmbH as a software developer in 2000. He was named a team manager in 2002 and four years later became an Elektrobit product-development director.
He moved to the United States in 2008 as general manager of automotive software for Elektrobit Inc. and became an Elektrobit Automotive Inc. vice president in 2011.
A native of Hemer, Germany, Holve holds a master’s degree in computer science from Erlangen-Nuremberg University and a doctoral degree in engineering from the FORWISS Institute at the University in Erlangen.
Prior to joining Elektrobit, he pursued post-doctoral studies as a researcher in the University of California’s Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering in Berkeley.
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