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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 [...] -
Nissan reveal IDS concept at Tokyo
- 28/10/2015
- 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 [...] -
Autonomous Tesla has arrived
- 15/10/2015
- 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 [...] -
Daimler driverless truck hits the road
- 05/10/2015
- 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 [...] -
Americans don’t trust autonomous parking
- 29/09/2015
- 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 [...] -
TomTom launch RoadDNA
- 14/09/2015
- 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 [...] -
Camber Ridge launches $60m test facility
- 05/08/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Camber Ridge has announced its financial partnership with Teton Capital of Jackson, Wyoming, to launch a new state-of-the-art facility for vehicle tyre characterisation, which will begin operations in 2016. The facility aims to offer all the advantages of testing real tyres on real surfaces, but with the precision, [...] -
Bosch and TomTom design autonomous maps
- 21/07/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Bosch and traffic information provider TomTom, have agreed to collaborate in the area of maps for highly automated driving. Under this agreement, TomTom is designing the necessary maps, while Bosch, on the basis of its systems engineering work, is defining the specifications these maps have to meet. At this [...]