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How Brexit could derail U.K.’s bid to be leader in autonomous car development

Posted on Apr 5, 2019 in Cars, News

A report published by U.K. trade association the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) and business consultancy firm Frost...

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Elon Musk: Self-driving Teslas are going to make their owners money by competing with Uber, Lyft

Posted on Apr 5, 2019 in Cars, News

Elon Musk says Tesla vehicles one day make money for their owners by autonomously transporting people when their owners are not using them...

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Connected and autonomous vehicles: Winning the global race to market

Posted on Apr 4, 2019 in Buses, Cars, Knowledge Center, Reports

Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), April 4, 2019 The UK is in pole position in the global race to market for connected and...

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China building a highway with dedicated lanes for autonomous vehicles

Posted on Apr 4, 2019 in Cars, Infrastructure, News

A new highway in China is being built that will have dedicated lanes for autonomous vehicles. The lanes reserved for self-driving cars...

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Tesla woos Wall Street and drivers with autonomous vehicle fanfare

Posted on Apr 4, 2019 in Cars, Finance, News

Yesterday was a somewhat mixed day for Tesla, as the electric carmaker announced that Q1 shipments fell 31% on the previous quarter, due...

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Reuters poll finds American drivers still aren’t interested in autonomous cars

Posted on Apr 4, 2019 in Cars, News

Surveys are far from the most reliable source of information, but they do provide a decent, if not perfect, look at how a large amount of...

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Researchers quantify the impact of autonomous vehicles on traffic

Posted on Apr 4, 2019 in Cars, News

Researchers of the UWICORE laboratory, of the Department of Communications Engineering and the I3E Engineering Research Centre of the...

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Autonomous vehicles provide new economic opportunities although security hurdles arise

Posted on Apr 4, 2019 in Buses, Cars, Perspective, Trucks

If you live in the Silicon Valley, you probably have seen Google’s autonomous vehicles map terrain and drive around your local highways or...

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Self-driving cars could provide £62bn boost to UK economy by 2030

Posted on Apr 4, 2019 in Cars, News

Britain’s leading position in developing self-driving cars could produce a £62bn economic boost by 2030, the car industry claimed – but...

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Virtual tests for autonomous driving systems

Posted on Apr 3, 2019 in Cars, Technology

Sensors in autonomous vehicles have to be extremely reliable, since in the future motorists will no longer constantly monitor traffic...

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Audi to showcase self-driving city car

Posted on Apr 3, 2019 in Cars, News

Audi said its AI:ME design study demonstrates is vision for a self-driving city car for megacities. The concept will have its public debut...

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Tesla to show self-driving car progress to investors

Posted on Apr 3, 2019 in Cars, News

Tesla announced on Wednesday that it will give investors an up-close look at its self-driving car in a bid to bolster confidence in the...

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More stringent, more technical: Uber’s new look self-driving programme

Posted on Apr 3, 2019 in Cars, News

In August 2016, Uber’s footing in the autonomous drive space became significantly more assured, having penned a deal with Volvo Cars to...

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Building driverless cars: How they will reshape our world

Posted on Apr 3, 2019 in Cars, Knowledge Center, Perspective, Videos & Podcasts

Waymo consultant Larry Burns, General Motors’ former vice president-R&D, shares his insights with GlobalAutoIndustry.com on the...

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Groupe PSA continues its autonomous driving tests as part of the European L3Pilot project

Posted on Apr 3, 2019 in Cars, News

Groupe PSA is continuing its autonomous driving trial runs. Since the start of April, the Group’s vehicles equipped with level 3*...

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Wayve claims ‘world first’ in driving a car autonomously with only its AI and a SatNav

Posted on Apr 3, 2019 in Cars, News, Technology

Projects like Google’s Waymo, Uber, Cruise and Aurora are developing autonomous vehicles by throwing engineers at the problem, basing most...

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BMW set to begin testing driverless cars in Israel

Posted on Apr 3, 2019 in Cars, News

Silicon Valley, Detroit, and Pittsburgh may be technology hubs for the United States, but spread your sights to other countries, and...

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Ford, GM and Toyota team up to develop standards for autonomous vehicles

Posted on Apr 3, 2019 in Cars, News

Ford, General Motors and Toyota and have joined forces with SAE International to form the Automated Vehicle Safety Consortium. Designed to...

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Let Congress decide privacy safeguards for autonomous vehicles, 2020 hopeful John Delaney says

Posted on Apr 3, 2019 in Cars, News, Policy & Regulation

Questions regarding the use of data collected from self-driving vehicles will need to be addressed by policymakers when they craft a...

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Volkswagen’s self-driving cars are about to hit a new city

Posted on Apr 3, 2019 in Cars, News

Germany is taking on the U.S. (and China) when it comes to autonomous vehicles. On Wednesday, Volkswagen and Hamburg announced a...

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