Autonomous cars will start testing on public roads in the UK by the end of 2013 as part of a government plan to reduce traffic congestion in Britain. Planned as part of a £28 billion ($46.4 billion) investment by the Department for ...
UK government is planning to grant permission for the testing of driverless vehicle technology on the country's public roads by the end of 2013. The move is part of the Department of Transports new £28bn road investment and strategy ...
Tags: Driverless Vehicles, Auto
With Google set to buy app-maker Waze, the question is whether Google actually needs the crowd-sourced traffic app or is simply trying to stick it to its competitors. On Tuesday, Google confirmed weeks of rumors that?it is buying Waze. ...
Tags: Google, Computer Products
Monday’s opening keynote, “The Impact of Robotics on Economic Growth,” drew a 50/50 split of attendees for both ProMat and Automate, according to a show of hands requested by presenter Henrik Christensen, KUKA Chair of ...
Tags: Robotics, automation, robot maintenance
There was a lot of cool stuff on display at CES.In fact,there was a lot of stuff,period.Trying to find a single standout isn't easy,especially when it is near-impossible to even see everything at the massive event.But there were a number of ...
Tags: CES 2013, car tech, in Vegas, radio-controlled flying drone Parrot
There was a lot of cool stuff on display at CES.In fact,there was a lot of stuff,period.Trying to find a single standout isn't easy,especially when it is near-impossible to even see everything at the massive event.But there were a number of ...
Tags: CES, car tech, automotive realm, Vegas
Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC), along with its Lexus division, has unveiled its advanced active safety research vehicle for the first time at the 2013 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, revealing the company’s ...
Tags: Toyota Motor Corporation, Lexus division, vehicle, CES, safety technology
Want to use Google Maps when you're in the middle of a road trip? Kia Motors America wants to help you do that. Google and Kia jointly announced Wednesday a deal to integrate Google Maps and Google Places into Kia automobiles. Kia's 2014 ...
Tags: Kia, Google Maps, Voice Search, 2014
CIO - There's no question, we're at an inflection point in the digitization of our world. In every domain and dimension, the substitution of digital for analog is racing ahead. A couple recent examples illustrate the power of this trend. ...
Tags: digitization, digital, transforming manufacturing, IT, big data
Intel CTO Justin Rattner predicts that driverless cars will be available within 10 years and that buyers by then will increasingly be more interested in a vehicle's internal technology than the quality of its engine. Intel, the world's ...
Tags: Intel, CTO, Justin Rattner, autonomous smart cars
At a launch event for the school's new wireless technology research center, MIT PhD student Swarun Kumar presented technology for a new autonomous vehicle that recognizes when it may be in danger of striking other cars and pedestrians. ...
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At a launch event for the school's new wireless technology research center,MIT PhD student Swarun Kumar presented technology for a new autonomous vehicle that recognizes when it may be in danger of striking other cars and pedestrians. ...
Tags: Wireless, Autonomous, Driverless Car
Google is known for setting ambitious targets for itself,and it's apparently making no exception for self-driving cars.Such"autonomous vehicles"will be a reality for"ordinary people"in less than five years,Google CEO Sergey Brin said on ...
Tags: Google, Sergey Brin, Self-Driving cars, Vehicle safety
Earlier this summer, I had the opportunity to gain a vantage point on the pace of change we're seeing in IT. To really get a grasp on it, though, I had to go back to Roman times. What I came away with was a confirmation that we are now ...
Tags: cloud computering, IT innovation, computer technology, IT Pace of Change
Researchers hope they can sharply reduce the number of car accidents by enabling vehicles to communicate with each other--and they're putting the theory to the test in Ann Arbor,Mich. On Tuesday,researchers at the University of Michigan ...
Tags: smart car, Google, sustainability, vehicle