• Government considers new Automated Vehicles Act
    • 26/01/2022
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    The Law Commission of England and Wales and the Scottish Law have recommended the introduction of a new Automated Vehicles Act to ensure the safe adoption of vehicles with self-driving capability. The Act would draw a clear distinction between features which just assist drivers, such as adaptive cruise control, and [...]
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  • Half of motorists oppose driverless cars
    • 24/05/2016
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Half of motorists oppose driverless cars as Britain takes pole position in the development of self-driving vehicles, according to a new survey And 62% of drivers said they would feel less safe on the roads alongside other vehicles with no human behind the wheel. Almost three-quarters of those surveyed (72%) said [...]
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  • 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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  • KIA plans autonomous cars for 2020
    • 16/11/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    In-line with other major vehicle manufacturers Kia Motors plans to introduce a range of partially-autonomous driving technologies to its model line-up by 2020, and is aiming to bring its first fully-autonomous car to market by 2030. The initial stage of investment by Kia – totalling US$2 billion by 2018 – will [...]
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  • 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 [...]
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  • 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 [...]
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  • 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 [...]
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  • 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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  • 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 [...]
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  • Lasers can stop driverless cars
    • 08/09/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    A homemade gadget can disable the systems that allow self-driving cars to see where they are going, the BBC reports. Jonathan Petit, a security researcher, demonstrated how a modified, low-cost laser could create ghostlike objects in the path of autonomous cars. The cars slowed down to avoid hitting them and if [...]
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