City bidding for driverless cars as £10m plan gets under way July 30, 2014 Driverless cars could be weaving their way through the City’s streets in just six months, the government revealed yesterday. In an announcement that came as a surprise to one of the biggest car manufacturers in the UK, ministers unveiled a £10m plan to allow three cities the chance to test-run cars that drive themselves. Bids [...]
Is the UK close to widespread adoption of driverless cars? July 30, 2014 Stian Westlake, executive director of research at Nesta, says Yes. Self-driving cars offer big benefits for consumers and for the economy. They’re safer. They’ll allow us to free up city centre parking and relieve drudgery for the 57 per cent of British workers who drive to work. The reality is near at hand. Google cars [...]
Driverless cars to take to UK roads from 2015 July 30, 2014 Driverless cars will be allowed to use public roads as soon as next year, the business secretary Vince Cable announced today. Furthermore, the business secretary outlined measures to boost research in the area. UK cities will be able to bid for a share of a £10m competition to host a driverless cars trial, with the [...]
Google to put driverless cars on the roads May 28, 2014 GOOGLE is rolling out 100 self-driving cars in California, in a trial the tech giant hopes will pave the way for widespread global use. After clocking up 700,000 miles of autonomous driving in adapted cars, Google is ready to put its specially-built driverless vehicles onto the streets. The prototypes have space for two passengers, operate [...]
How Google’s driverless cars could save your life – and make you money May 28, 2014 WHEN the man behind the Segway, the battery-powered personal mobility scooter, died after riding one of his products off a cliff, it seemed like a grim end to yet another transport fad. After the Sinclair C5, the hovercraft, the poweriser and the Segway, it’s easy to be sceptical about the next sci-fi “leap” in transportation. [...]
In Pictures: The evolution of Google’s driverless car May 28, 2014 It’s here, it’s finally here. Well, not actually here, Google’s hallowed driverless car is still in Silicon Valley – still, we imagine, driving around the Mountain View-based, Googleplex car park. But we’ve seen photos, so we know a fully-fledged prototype exists. Google's Sergey Brin calls it “chauffeur.” The car has had mixed reviews, with [...]
Most British motorists wouldn’t use a driverless car March 4, 2014 The Geneva Motor Show opens today, bringing with it the car industry’s latest attempts to show off driverless vehicles – but British motorists look unlikely to adopt the new technology any time soon. Swiss firm Rinspeed is exhibiting the XchangE, a concept car based on the Tesla Model S that allows passengers to sit facing [...]
Video: The future of driverless transport is hiding at Heathrow March 3, 2014 Driverless vehicles are either the future of motoring or the death knell for public transport, depending on whether you take your travel news from Google or the RMT. But tucked away beyond domestic arrivals at Heathrow is a driverless transport network that has been running successfully for nearly three years and is the first of [...]
Ford unveils its answer to Google’s self-driving car February 24, 2014 As the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona gets underway Ford has unveiled what could be its answer to Google's self driving Toyota Prius, according to Sky News. Ford's new self-driving car is fitted with four infrared light sensors capable of taking 2.5m measurements every second. The sensors scan the road meticulously for possible obstacles such [...]
Milton Keynes to trial driverless cars on town pavements by 2015 October 28, 2013 A HUNDRED driverless cars will join pedestrians on the pavements of Milton Keynes in 2015 as part of a trial by a joint industry and government panel exploring the future of UK transport. The self-driving pods will operate on a separate lane on pavements at speeds of up to 12mph as part of the Automotive [...]