自動車工学：総論

抄録

　Automobiles are indispensable for our life. Recent key technologies are electric drive and autonomous driving. In addition, conventional technologies are also progressing. This special section provides articles that concern recent automobile technologies on control, autonomous driving, electric drive and the consideration of environment, driver assistance system, and crash simulators for the research and development of passive safety devices. At the beginning of this special section, kinds of automobiles and needs for automobiles are described, and some articles that concern simulation and optimization technologies for automobiles are introduced in this article.