• Industry cautious about ALKS announcement

    • 28 April 2021
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    The government has announced that self-driving cars could be allowed on UK motorways by the end of the year The Department for Transport has confirmed that automated lane-keeping systems (ALKS) will be the first type of hands-free driving to be legalised, with speeds limited to 37mph Drivers will still need to [...]
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  • Volvo launches UK ambition

    • 27 April 2016
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Categories: Magazine, News
    Volvo Cars, is to begin the UK's most ambitious autonomous driving trial next year to speed up the introduction of a technology that promises to massively reduce car accidents as well as free up congested roads and save drivers valuable time The Swedish company, whose name has been synonymous with automotive safety [...]
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  • Ford tests autonomous vehicles at Mcity

    • 13 November 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Ford is the first carmaker to test autonomous vehicles at Mcity – a simulated real-world urban environment at the University of Michigan, USA The 32-acre facility is part of the university’s Mobility Transformation Centre Mcity provides real-world road scenarios – such as running a red light – that cannot [...]
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  • Police stop google self-driving car

    • 13 November 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    A Google self-driving car was pulled over by police because the vehicle was traveling too slowly, according to police officials The officer in Mountain View, California, noticed traffic backing up behind the prototype vehicle, which was traveling 24 mph in a 35 mph zone After realising it was a Google [...]
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  • JLR launches £11m driverless car programme

    • 15 October 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Jaguar Land Rover is teaming up with academics across the UK in a bid to develop fully autonomous cars The £11 million programme, jointly funded by the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council, has awarded funding to a total of five projects nationwide Research will be split between 10 universities [...]
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  • Toyota self-driving cars by 2020

    • 7 October 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Toyota has unveiled its vision for self-driving cars, promising to start selling autonomous vehicles in Japan by 2020 Toyota demonstrated on a Tokyo motorway what it called the ‘mobility team-mate concept’, meaning the driver and the artificial intelligence in a sensor-packed car work together as a team In [...]
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  • Volvo reveals new driverless interface

    • 5 October 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Volvo has revealed one of the industry’s most advanced and easy-to-use interfaces to oversee how drivers will transfer control to a car’s autonomous driving (AD) mode in its forthcoming cars The advent of autonomous driving technology means that the relationship between a driver and a car’s user interface is [...]
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  • Motorists red light driverless cars

    • 1 October 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Motorists could stop self-driving cars in their tracks with more than 70 per cent ready to turn their backs on the march of automotive progress, according to a new survey Just over five per cent of motorists asked by the UK’s largest specialist insurance broker Adrian Flux said they would embrace the new [...]
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  • Self-driving pods unveiled

    • 16 September 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    The first of three ‘pod’ vehicles was unveiled in Milton Keynes on Tuesday as part of a pioneering project to trial automated vehicles in pedestrianised areas The electric-powered LUTZ Pathfinder pod was presented to commuters and other members of the public outside Milton Keynes Central train station, with [...]
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  • Toyota invests $50m in autonomous cars

    • 8 September 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Toyota is making a major investment into developing intelligent and self-driving vehicles alongside two leading US universities Over the next five years, Toyota Motor Corporation will invest approximately $50 million (about £32 million) in establishing joint research centres at both Stanford and the Massachusetts [...]
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