• Live testing begins for autonomous bus service

    • 25 April 2022
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    The first autonomous buses will begin live Level 4 testing on UK roads this week as part of project CAVForth Stagecoach, in partnership with Fusion Processing, Alexander Dennis and Transport Scotland, will be carrying out on-road testing of the autonomous bus over the next two weeks in preparation for the launch of [...]
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  • Geely and Waymo forge EV partnership

    • 4 January 2022
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    Geely’s premium electric brand, Zeekr, will collaborate with Waymo on the development of a new pure electric vehicle for Waymo’s autonomous ride-hailing fleet in the United States Under this collaboration, Zeekr will be designing and developing the future vehicle on a new proprietary and open-source mobility [...]
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  • VMs pass new assisted driving gradings

    • 25 November 2021
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    The latest Assisted Driving Gradings from Thatcham Research and Euro NCAP found that all seven of the mainstream vehicle manufacturers whose cars were tested are committed to fitting robust assisted driving technology at every price point The world-first assessments were introduced in October 2020 to support the [...]
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  • Tesla seeking ‘hardcore engineers’

    • 20 November 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Elon Musk, chief executive of Tesla Motors, is using Twitter to recruit software engineers in an attempt to accelerate the company's project to build autonomous cars On twitter Mr Musk appealed for ‘hardcore software engineers’ to work on the firm's Autopilot software The Tesla boss said he will be [...]
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  • Volvo unveils Concept 26

    • 19 November 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Volvo Cars’ ongoing research into autonomous driving has confirmed what we all know - that the daily commute is taking the joy out of driving It is during the commute and on long motorway trips that people are most willing to delegate the act of driving to their car With this in mind, Volvo has developed Concept [...]
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  • Nissan reveal IDS concept at Tokyo

    • 28 October 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Today at the Tokyo Motor Show 2015, Nissan unveiled a concept vehicle that is said to embody the firm’s vision of the future of autonomous driving and zero emission EVs: the Nissan IDS Concept Presenting at the show, Nissan president and CEO Carlos Ghosn said, ‘Nissan’s forthcoming technologies will [...]
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  • Autonomous Tesla has arrived

    • 15 October 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Tesla has launched a new software update for its vehicles, enabling the cars to have an ‘autopilot’ mode While not fully autonomous, the new software update allows the Model S and new Model X to ‘automatically steer down the highway, change lanes, and adjust speed in response to traffic’ Other major [...]
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  • Daimler driverless truck hits the road

    • 5 October 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Daimler Trucks ran a real-world test of what it says is the first series-production truck to operate on an automated basis on the highway The firm fitted its Highway Pilot self-driving system to a Mercedes-Benz Actros truck and sent it out on the Autobahn 8 near Stuttgart in Germany The truck used for the [...]
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  • Americans don’t trust autonomous parking

    • 29 September 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    According to the results of a new survey from AAA, nearly 80 per cent of American drivers are confident in their parallel parking abilities and only one-in-four would trust this technology to park their vehicle Despite this, AAA testing found self-parking technology outperformed unassisted drivers in four key [...]
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  • TomTom launch RoadDNA

    • 14 September 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    TomTom today announced the launch of TomTom RoadDNA, an innovative new product for vehicle localisation that will help make automated driving a reality, faster Designed with vehicle data storage and processing limitations in mind, RoadDNA delivers highly accurate location information that can easily be integrated [...]
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