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£20m backing for driverless cars
- 20/07/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
The UK government has launched a £20m research and development fund dedicated to boosting driverless car developments. Funding will be awarded following a competition to find the bid with the most innovative approach to developing the technology. It is hoped the money will make Britain the best place to test the [...] -
Audi race ahead with Autonomous RS7
- 14/07/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Audi is racing ahead with autonomous car technology having unveiled a faster and lighter version of the RS7 Piloted Driving Concept. The autonomous RS7 has been dubbed ‘Robby’ and this latest version carries over all of the kit, including sensors, cameras and GPS radars, from the previous Audi RS7 Piloted [...] -
Rival self-driving cars suffer near-miss
- 26/06/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
A rare meeting between rival self-driving cars on a Californian road almost ended in a crash, Reuters reports. The robot cars, one made by Delphi Automotive and the other by Google, had their encounter on a busy road in Palo Alto. The Google car reportedly pulled out in front of the Delphi vehicle. The abrupt [...] -
Ford joins rivals with self-driving car tech
- 24/06/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Executives at Ford have announced that the car company is joining other major car manufacturers in stepping up efforts to roll out self-driving cars, Reuters reports. The US car company will expand advanced safety technology, including automatic braking, across its global vehicle line-up over the next five years, [...] -
Google testing on public roads
- 18/05/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
This summer some of Googles autonomous cars will be tested on the roads around Mountain View, California, where the tech giant is based. Before now, the small vehicles have only driven on test tracks and have not mixed with regular traffic. Google has tested self-driving vehicles on public roads but all of them [...]
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