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Consumers concerned with driverless car safety
- 01/09/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
With the arrival of autonomous cars looming, OSV Ltd, a vehicle leasing company surveyed around 500 people in the UK to find out exactly what was concerning them most when it comes to driverless cars. The results from the survey carried out by OSV Ltd were overwhelming! 72% of the UK population admitted that they [...] -
Driverless car to feature at LCV 2015
- 14/08/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
The Transport Systems Catapult-led LUTZ Pathfinder project will represent the future of motoring at the UK’s premium low carbon vehicle event in September. In order to demonstrate how low carbon technologies will find a natural bedfellow with autonomous vehicles - which can be programmed to optimize energy usage [...] -
UK does not want driverless cars
- 30/07/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
A survey by OSV Ltd shows that although the car industry is heading towards an autonomous car revolution, a whopping 75% of the UK population do not want a driverless car. The survey also showed that the English were most against driverless cars, with 82% stating that they did not want one. This week the [...] -
Impact of Driverless Cars presentation
- 30/07/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
A discussion on the ‘Impact of Driverless Cars on Logistics and Insurance’, plus new Business Models and related case studies will be presented during the second edition of Frost & Sullivan's GIL 2015, in Monaco on 23 October 2015. Disrupting unsustainable business models is the only way to survive and [...] -
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 [...] -
Driverless car trials to begin in Australia
- 21/07/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Volvo will conduct the first on-road trials of driverless cars in the Southern Hemisphere in South Australia in November. The testing by Volvo will be held in conjunction with an international conference on driverless cars in Adelaide. Volvo will test the same vehicle being used in their ‘Drive Me’ project [...] -
Global automotive market awaits 5G
- 21/07/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
The world will soon see 5G emerge as a blend of pre-existing technologies such as 2G, 3G, 4G and Wi-Fi to allow higher network coverage, availability and density. With its key differentiator being greater connectivity, 5G will act as an enabler for autonomous vehicles, machine-to-machine and machine-to-infrastructure [...] -
£20m backing for driverless cars
- 20/07/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
The UK government has launched a £20m research and development fund dedicated to boosting driverless car developments. Funding will be awarded following a competition to find the bid with the most innovative approach to developing the technology. It is hoped the money will make Britain the best place to test the [...] -
Virtual reality to revolutionize UK transport
- 20/07/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
New facilities in Milton Keynes will see virtual worlds used to help solve problems and test innovative technology for the UK’s transport network, such as driverless cars. Elite technology innovation center, Transport Systems Catapult (TSC), has announced the opening of a ‘Visualisation laboratory’ at its [...] -
Horiba acquire UK group Mira
- 15/07/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
A Japanese industrial group has swooped on Mira, the British automotive company that is a pivotal player in the future of driverless cars. Horiba announced on Tuesday that it had acquired the former Motor Industry Research Association for an undisclosed sum. Mira began life in 1945 as a government-funded test [...]
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