View original post. Car usage in the capital is falling, but what’s replacing it? We run through some of the ways tech is affecting transport in London today. While Londoners used to be faced with a binary choice between car or public transport, new ways of getting around the capital have been cropping up. In London, the number of journeys made …

View original post. Singapore has planned to set up a pilot city on an island where it will run driverless electric cars, trucks and buses in a bid to switch from gasoline and diesel to ensure clean environment and fuel savings. To implement the plan, the government of Singapore has allocated a piece of land to the Energy Research Institute …

View original post. An ‘exciting’ new project which could put the West Midlands at the forefront of the UK’s driverless cars revolution is set to be outlined by the region’s mayor next week. Mayor Andy Street will join guests at Warwick University on Tuesday where he is expected to detail plans to use 50 miles of Birmingham and Coventry roads …

View original post. Self-driving cars are coming to Australia at some point, and lawmakers have to prepare for their arrival, whether they like it or not. By 2020, a national law will be put into place around autonomous vehicles, helping guide manufacturers and operators looking to bring the technology to the country. The National Transport Commission (NTC), an independent body …

View original post. Mobility technology company Fleetondemand have developed major new capabilities to its core rental management and ground transportation technology. The 18-month development and investment has been designed to broaden the capability of the technology across wider connected automotive asset business models for both business and consumer mobility markets. A mobile-firstmobility experience for users can now be driven via a single automatic …

View original post. Is what most people want. It is why the car is so popular (and bicycle). The convenience, the end-to-end journey time and comfort are other factors. Many households have multiple cars (we reached 5). But suppose that instead of owning a car you had a car available on demand? You sometimes do, it is called a taxi. …

View original post. HONK IF YOU’VE heard this one before: Autonomous and connected cars will make driving less of a drudge by handling the stop-n-go mundanity of your commute for you. Even driver assistance tools that require human oversight, like Tesla’s Autopilot, Cadillac’s Super Cruise, and Audi’s Traffic Jam Pilot, make driving easier, maybe even safer. Too bad the cars equipped with these features are expensive and therefore …

View original post. To get to the Uber conference on flying cars in Los Angeles last week, where I was scheduled to interview Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, I hailed a Lyft. My driver was understandably amused about where I was going. “Flying cars?” he said, laughing. “That makes more sense than the self-driving ones.” My driver was right: these days, …

View original post. Self driving cars have become a hot topic in the industry in the past few years, here in this article, Daniel Wesley tells us just how self-driving cars work, and the great technology behind them. Lidar sensors Receptive optics – A separate lens receives returning beams, and the unit processes beam “flight time” and angle to form …

There was a total of 25,160 people killed or seriously injured because of a road traffic accident in the year ending September 2016. With 90% of accidents involving human error, it can be difficult to determine a long-term solution. Fortunately, it does not appear as though car manufacturers are ignoring these figures. Accident-prevention technology has come a long way in …