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Oxa founder awarded CBE
- 19/06/2023
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
Paul Newman, founder and CTO of Oxa, the autonomous vehicle software developer, has been awarded a CBE, as part of the King’s Birthday Honours for 2023. This has been awarded for his outstanding contributions and services to the field of Engineering and Technology in the UK, and which have extended around the [...] -
IMI predicts autonomous breakthrough in 2023
- 22/12/2022
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
The Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI) has predicted that 2023 will see great forward strides in both autonomous technology and a focus on diversity in the workforce. It says Level 3 autonomous vehicles will be introduced to UK roads next year, but this will exacerbate the existing lack of skills and training [...] -
Industry cautious about ALKS announcement
- 28/04/2021
- 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 [...] -
Volvo launches UK ambition
- 27/04/2016
- 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 [...] -
Ford tests autonomous vehicles at Mcity
- 13/11/2015
- 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 [...] -
Police stop google self-driving car
- 13/11/2015
- 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 [...] -
JLR launches £11m driverless car programme
- 15/10/2015
- 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 [...] -
Toyota self-driving cars by 2020
- 07/10/2015
- 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 [...] -
Volvo reveals new driverless interface
- 05/10/2015
- 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 [...] -
Motorists red light driverless cars
- 01/10/2015
- 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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