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. 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 …

View original post. A few years ago, Tesla seemed to be leading the race to develop self-driving cars. The company had rolled out a lane assistance feature, dubbed AutoPilot, leading to controversy related to the use of that name and overall consumer expectations of what a product labeled “AutoPilot” could reasonably achieve. Now, a new report from Navigant Research has …

View original post. Overview The mobility of the future is “eascy” – electrified, autonomous, shared, connected and “yearly” updated. In this study, we describe the factors influencing the sector leading up to 2030 in the key US, Europe, and China markets. It also describes how the automotive industry should restructure itself in terms of volume, scale, and complexity. Through mathematical modeling …

View original post. Projected to be road-ready in five to seven years, driverless cars are on the minds of politicians, policy makers and city planners around the world. In Sweden, Minister of Infrastructure Tomas Eneroth is one politician who is opening up the dialogue around regulations for driverless cars. Recently, Minister Eneroth took a ride in one of the driverless buses that are …

View original post. The very idea of a driverless vehicle rolling around on the streets seems incredible. And yet, we may be close to seeing such vehicles on the road around the world, thanks to artificial intelligence (AI), among other driving forces. In the recent past, there have been some amazing advances in autonomous vehicle technology which indicate the dream is inching toward fruition. …