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Oxa and eVersum announce autonomous collaboration
- 17/10/2023
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
Autonomous vehicle software developer Oxa has entered into a partnership with eVersum, which provides electric commercial vehicles and passenger transport solutions. The partnership will see the pair design, develop and produce shared autonomous passenger vehicles which will be offered to public transport operators [...] -
Oxa enters US market
- 25/08/2023
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
Autonomous vehicle software developer Oxa is entering the US market through a new partnership with Beep, which provides autonomous shared mobility solutions. The partnership will see Oxa’s autonomy software installed in a variety of vehicle types operated by Beep, starting with a fleet of autonomous and electric [...] -
Automated tech diminishing drivers’ skills
- 23/08/2023
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
New data has revealed that 66% of drivers have automated technology in their cars, with nearly a third (31%) believing it makes people worse drivers. The survey, by Quotezone, found that half of drivers say they use the assisted features every time they drive and 25% say they always use it to park. However, rule [...] -
UK drivers reject self-driving timeline
- 19/05/2023
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
New research suggests that UK motorist are not enthusiastic about the introduction of self-driving cars. Motoring experts at Quotezone asked 1,000 car insurance customers whether they would be keen to buy a self-driving car and 87% said they wouldn’t. The main reason UK motorists don’t want driverless [...] -
Stellantis accelerates hydrogen strategy
- 03/01/2023
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
Stellantis has followed last month’s acquisition of an autonomous driving software specialist with news that it is now seeking to acquire a leader in hydrogen mobility. It acquired aiMotive before Christmas, a leading developer of advanced artificial intelligence and autonomous driving software, to accelerate its [...] -
Live testing begins for autonomous bus service
- 25/04/2022
- 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 [...] -
Geely and Waymo forge EV partnership
- 04/01/2022
- 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 [...] -
VMs pass new assisted driving gradings
- 25/11/2021
- 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 [...] -
Tesla seeking ‘hardcore engineers’
- 20/11/2015
- 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 [...] -
Volvo unveils Concept 26
- 19/11/2015
- 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 [...]
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