More: Autonomous Vehicles
San Francisco Outage Reveals a Critical Gap in Robotaxi Readiness
A recent power outage in San Francisco caused significant traffic disruptions, with Waymo's robotaxis stalling at intersections due to non-working traffic signals. The outage,...
Self-driving vehicles: the road to cheaper, sustainable urban transport in Europe
The future of urban mobility is near. EU-backed trials of driverless cars in public transport could make Europe’s city centres affordable, cleaner, safer, more...
Self-driving trucks: en route to transform Europe’s freight sector
EU-funded researchers are accelerating the rollout of self-driving trucks on public roads to solve driver shortages and improve safety and sustainability in Europe’s logistics...
Qatar’s Affinity to Technology and Innovation is Key
Earlier this year, H.E. Lothar Freischlader, Germany’s Ambassador to the State of Qatar and Thomas Triller, Deputy Head of Mission responsible for economic affairs,...
‘Robot cars’ are coming. How can we make sure they’re safe?
The concept of “autonomous” cars, moving us all around in an orderly, congestion-free fashion has been around, in various forms, for decades. But, despite...
Self-driving cars emerge from the sci-fi realm
By Tom Cassauwers
It's an ordinary day in the northern German city of Hamburg, where countless cars move along the streets and pedestrians cross at the...
AutoFlight presents V1500M – an autonomous passenger eVTOL aircraft
Shaping the future of urban air mobility: The tech company AutoFlight shows an autonomous passenger eVTOL aircraft: the V1500M. It will change the face of...
Roadmap to ‘Virtual Driver’s licence’ for AV Can Accelerate Development
The World Economic Forum today released guidance for policymakers to create performance-based regulations for autonomous vehicles (AVs). A sort of ‘virtual driver’s license,’ the...
Shared, automated… and electric?
Authors: George Kamiya and Jacob
Teter*
Automated driving and shared mobility could dramatically reshape road
transport over the coming decades, with major implications for vehicle electrification and...
Consumers Pump the Brakes on Autonomous Vehicle Adoption
As autonomous vehicle (AV)
technology gets ever closer to scalable, real-world application, consumer trust
in the safety of AVs appears to be stalling, according to the...