• New tech unlocks autonomous motorway merging
    • 22/11/2022
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    Improved technology will soon allow self-driving cars to merge onto motorways and highways with better safety, thanks research from WMG, part of the University of Warwick. They have pioneered this technology as part of the AutopleX (Autonomous Cars Negotiating Complex Environments Using V2X) project [...]
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  • 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 [...]
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  • 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 [...]
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  • Self-driving pods unveiled
    • 16/09/2015
    • 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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  • Car makers in Nokia map deal
    • 22/07/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Germany's premium car makers are close to signing a deal to buy Nokia's HERE map business for between $2.74 billion to $3.29 billion, but a final agreement hinges on the question of who owns the patents which help self-driving cars talk to mobile networks, according to reports from Reuters. The purchase of HERE, is [...]
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  • Audi race ahead with Autonomous RS7
    • 14/07/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Audi is racing ahead with autonomous car technology having unveiled a faster and lighter version of the RS7 Piloted Driving Concept. The autonomous RS7 has been dubbed ‘Robby’ and this latest version carries over all of the kit, including sensors, cameras and GPS radars, from the previous Audi RS7 Piloted [...]
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  • Google tests autonomous cars in Austin
    • 08/07/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Google has started testing its autonomous cars in Austin, Texas, increasing efforts to gather information on how its prototypes interact with the surrounding environment. Google has been testing self-driving cars since 2009, though until now most of the testing has been around its Silicon Valley headquarters in [...]
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  • Ford joins rivals with self-driving car tech
    • 24/06/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Executives at Ford have announced that the car company is joining other major car manufacturers in stepping up efforts to roll out self-driving cars, Reuters reports. The US car company will expand advanced safety technology, including automatic braking, across its global vehicle line-up over the next five years, [...]
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