The UK Government has commenced a trial of self driving cars in Bristol and Greenwich and it will be tested on the public roads of Milton Keynes and Coventry. The testing comes after a UK Government review, which allowed the automakers ...
Tags: Driverless Cars, Auto Parts
Used to be that a car's bragging rights had everything to do with horsepower. Now, it's computing power, as automakers vie for consumer dollars with the latest in tech gadgetry. That pitched battle is in full view here at the 2015 ...
South Korean auto maker Hyundai Motor is planning to invest around $73bn over the next four years to develop new vehicles, expand its production capacity and build a new headquarters. The auto maker will be focusing upon South Korea with ...
Tags: production capacity, quality competitiveness, technology power, Auto
Nvidia has announced two computing platforms for cars which include Drive CX, a digital cockpit for cars, based upon the company’s X1 processor along with an image processing platform for self driving cars dubbed DRIVE PX. The Drive ...
Tags: parking space, self driving cars, Auto
BMW is planning to team up with Baidu to test autonomous driving technology in China under a project, code-named "Vision Zero". The company aims at achieving accident-free mobility without compromising on the comfort and efficiency of the ...
Tags: Autonomous Driving Technology, BMW
Jeffrey Massimilla has become the first cyber security chief of General Motors to strengthen the security of computers that run on GM cars. The company's in car computer system is capable of managing brakes, navigation and engines, and in ...
Google has moved ahead with the self-driving car project with introduction of the new completely self-driving car prototype in the US. The new car does not have a steering wheel, accelerator pedal, or brake pedal as it is completely ...
Tags: Self-Driving Car, Google
Japan’s TDK will establish a product development base in California’s Silicon Valley that will focus on next-generation electronics parts. The center will be ready during the current fiscal year, which ends next March. TDK ...
Tags: TDK, Electronic Parts
Volvo has been testing the efficacy of magnets to keep self-driving cars moving safely on the road. The idea is for magnets to help the cars identify where they need to be in lanes. The Volvo Car Group tested how well the road magnets in ...
Tags: Auto, technology, GPS positioning
Swedish automobile manufacturer Volvo Car Group has completed a research which uses magnets to help the self-driving car determine its position. Conducted in a strategic co-operation with the Swedish Transport Administration, the project ...
In a rare public speech, Google Inc. CEO Larry Page once suggested the tech industry needs "safe places where we can try out new things" without rules or interference. Some people thought he was describing a futuristic fantasy, perhaps a ...
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHSTA) will soon propose rules for vehicle to vehicle (V2V) communications on U.S. roads, it announced yesterday. The agency is now finalizing a report on a 2012 trial with almost 3000 ...
Tags: Vehicle-to-Vehicle, Communications
Ford Motor Co. said Wednesday it was teaming up with researchers at two US universities to work on obstacles, technical and otherwise, to automated driving. "To deliver on our vision for the future of mobility, we need to work with many ...
Tags: Autonomous Cars, Cars, Transportation, Ford
Google recently sent several of its employees to meet with staff from FDA’s medical device branch. Bloomberg speculates that the new product could be tied to biosensors. The employees in question hail from the company’s Google ...
Tags: Medical Device, Google
Plug-in hybrids will lead the pack among e-vehicles in the race to produce cleaner, more efficient vehicles, according to KPMG International’s 2014 Global Automotive Executive Survey. The rise of alternative powertrain technologies ...
Tags: 2014 Global Automotive Executive Survey, Global Auto Sector Refocuses