Back Issues
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Cars Of The Future Magazine, Summer 2025
Introducing our Summer 2025 issue, editor Neil Kennett said: “Another year of epic firsts for Cars of the Future has been punctuated by several notable seconds, not least the info-packed publication you’re now holding.
“Our biggest recent second was, of course, the 2024 Self-Driving Industry Awards, held once again at the beautiful Turner Contemporary art gallery in Margate. The headline Vehicle of the Year award went to the OhmioLIFT shuttle, and you can read all about it on pages 8-9.
“Leaving seconds behind, a momentous personal first arrived on Tuesday 13 August, with an average left turn in a Ford Mondeo. After writing literally hundreds of thousands of words on the subject, I finally got to go in a self-driving car on public roads in the UK (with a safety driver). Thank you Oxa!
“Now, let’s get serious. After the test ride came an exceptional roundtable discussion on rollout and regulation. It featured independent road safety campaigner, Meera Naran MBE, who’s young son, Dev, was killed in a collision with a lorry on a smart motorway.
“Meera, having also just experienced on-road self-driving for the first time, explained that Dev was passionate about technology, and cars in particular. “I see value in the potential of self-driving,” she said. “It means that,in 20 years’ time, my daughter, who is four, is going to be safer.”
“That’s why connected and automated mobility is so important; that’s what Cars of the Future is all about.”
Cars Of The Future Magazine, Summer 2024
Introducing our Summer 2024 issue, editor Neil Kennett said: “Well, this is exciting; welcome to the first ever Cars of the Future magazine. Before you ask, yes, we do also support clean fuel technologies, but our core focus is self-driving vehicles and their role in the wider connected and automated mobility (CAM) ecosystem.
“This is, after all, the most fascinating sector in transport. It’s about to completely revolutionise safety, massively reducingthe 1.3 million road deaths that occur every year, and that’s just for starters. Providing access to mobility for those that can’t drive, freeing up huge amounts of time – economic, environmental and societal benefits.
“The feature that sparked all this was my 2018 long-read for The Institute of the Motor Industry, “Autonomous Now: The Shift to Self-Driving”. Following a deluge of passionate feedback (!) we clearly needed a free, independent, UK-centric self-driving news source. Cars of the Future was born!
“There are welcome signs now that we’re entering the ‘Slope of Enlightenment’, with better-funded pilots, more mature products and the benefits becoming increasingly well- publicised. So, last year, we launched another first – the inaugural Self-Driving Industry Awards.
“Stagecoach and Alexander Dennis wonthe headline Vehicle of the Year award for Project CAVForth, with other big winners, nominated by their industry peers, including Alex Kendall of Wayve, Rebecca Posner of CCAV and Oxa’s Paul Newman.”
The UK’s #1 for self-driving news and views will be back in print very soon.
