Grant Shapps pushes plan for driverless cars 

Britons could be the first drivers allowed to take their hands off the wheel on motorways to watch films, send texts or check emails as Grant Shapps pushes plan for driverless cars New lanekeeping technology introduced was introduced to Britain on Friday Introduction is stage three of five needed to see self-driving cars on the road   Grant … Read more

Fleet of six driverless Ford Mondeos being tested in Oxford for the next five months

Self-driving cars often use a combination of normal two-dimensional cameras and depth-sensing ‘LiDAR’ units to recognise the world around them. However, others make use of visible light cameras that capture imagery of the roads and streets.  They are trained with a wealth of information and vast databases of hundreds of thousands of clips which are … Read more

Fleet of six driverless Ford Mondeos to be tested in Oxford for the next five months

Self-driving cars often use a combination of normal two-dimensional cameras and depth-sensing ‘LiDAR’ units to recognise the world around them. However, others make use of visible light cameras that capture imagery of the roads and streets.  They are trained with a wealth of information and vast databases of hundreds of thousands of clips which are … Read more

Driverless car start-up Wejo zooms to £10m funding

Driverless car start-up Wejo zooms to £10m funding from Government’s coronavirus fund and investors  Chester-based Wejo hopes to play a major role in autonomous cars   £10m funding among largest secured by a start-up through the Future Fund By Jamie Nimmo For The Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 22:30 BST, 1 August 2020 | Updated: 23:04 … Read more

Driverless cars can suffer signal blackouts caused by ‘urban canyons’ 

As motor firms continue to develop their autonomous vehicle technology, the safety of driverless cars has been dragged into the spotlight as expert fear they could experience signal blackouts in built-up cities. Autonomous cars require a GPS signal in order to identify where other autonomous vehicles are around them. However, ‘urban canyons’ caused by high-rise … Read more

Robot cars made by driverless technology company will deliver prescription medicine to CVS customers

Robot cars made by driverless technology company will deliver prescription medicine to CVS customers in Texas The company Nuro will launch robot cars in Texas starting in June It will start with autonomous Toyota Prius’ and move to its driverless R2 vehicle Customers will be able to order online and pick up medicine at the … Read more

Chinese driverless delivery van startup sees a surge in demand amid coronavirus

Chinese driverless delivery van startup sees a surge in demand amid coronavirus outbreak as the machine stops physical contact with customers China has eased restrictions on autonomous vehicles since coronavirus Now, a Neolix, a driverless delivery service is thriving by doing tasks The technology is delivering goods and food without human contact It is also filling … Read more

Inside the 75mph milk float! Jaguar says its new driverless car will cut casualties on British roads

With a reassuring whirr and clunk, the glass doors slide shut behind me. I take my seat, clip on my seatbelt, settle back, unfurl my copy of the Daily Mail — and off we go. What’s unusual about this is that I’m the only person in the vehicle — and one of the first in … Read more

Tiny antennae that record how bees navigate may help perfect steering for driverless cars and drones

They are not just cute and stripy, but devastatingly efficient when it comes to locating the best pollen-rich flowers. As a result, the humble bee is at the centre of a £4.8 million project to create drones and driverless cars. In a unusual experiment, scientists painstakingly stuck tiny radar transponders to hundreds of bumblebees and honey … Read more