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UK autonomous bus and digger projects win share of £17m CAM Pathfinder funding

Zenzic announces CAM Pathfinder Enable and Demonstrate winners, August 2026

UK self-driving experience: Wayve Ford Mustang Mach-E robotaxi, 6 August 2026

Neil Kennett takes a self-driving ride around London in a Wayve robotaxi

Guest Column: Self-driving safety expert Camilla Fowler on assured operations – why great vehicles alone are not enough

Look beyond vehicle safety to assured operations, Fowler advises local authorities

The UK’s most advanced autonomous vehicle deployment: Westwell at Port of Felixstowe

Westwell autonomous trucks in the UK

Miles more autonomy at MOVE 2026: World leaders and big UK promises

Cars Of The Future autonomy event report: MOVE 2026

Well hello! Uber users in London can now catch a Wayve

Uber & Wayve self-driving news at London Tech Week 2026

Buses win elections! Cambridge Connector provides tantalising glimpse of huge public transport opportunity

Meet the team behind the UK’s most advanced on-highway bus trial

Fancy operating a self-driving passenger service in the UK? Applications open today, with Waymo and Wayve among favourites to launch first in Q4

UK government opens applications for commercial self-driving passenger service operators

Self-driving survey: 11.5% of UK adults say they’ve been in an AV, but only 6% actually have

Cars Of The Future partners with Quadrangle for new self-driving consumer attitude survey.

Robot delivery in that there Barnsley! Starship and Just Eat announce new last-mile trial

Self-driving robot fleet operator Starship partners with Just Eat in UK Tech Town

Great news for UK self-driving as Wayve announces further US$1.2 billion cash injection

US$1.2B boost for Wayve’s embodied AI approach to self-driving

Tensor announces cutting edge SAE L4 personal car testing in Dubai

Tensor to test L4 personal vehicles in UAE ahead of planned commercialisation later this year.

Proposed global regulation on ADS to go before UNECE’s World Forum for Harmonization in June 2026

Views on the proposed new UN Global Technical Regulation on Automated Driving Systems (ADS)

Big self-driving interview 2026: Richard Ballantyne OBE, Chief Executive of the British Ports Association

British ports are already a fantastic showcase for self-driving vehicles… and this is just the start.

Special Offer on European AV Summit 2026 tickets

European AV Summit – Thursday 19 March – use code “Cars” for your exclusive Cars Of The Future 25% reduction

Big self-driving interview: Nirav Shah, Nissan evolvAD

We talk mapping, sensors, the Highway Code and more with Nirav Shah, senior engineer on our 2025 Self-Driving Project of the Year winner, evolvAD by Nissan.

Self-Driving and Scalextric at UMP Parliamentary Reception

Cars Of The Future event report: UMP Parliamentary Reception, December 2025

New for 2026: The Automated Mobility Network of UK local authority self-driving pioneers

Meet the local authority experts bringing our 2024 and 2025 Self-Driving Vehicle of the Year winners to public roads near you

Self-Driving Industry Awards 2025: Event best bits and media coverage

Highlights from and reaction to the Self-Driving Industry Awards 2025

Big winners at Self-Driving Industry Awards 2025 on display at Turner Contemporary in Margate

4 award-winning self-driving vehicles together! Enviro100AEV bus, evolvAD Project LEAF, Ohmio LIFT shuttle, and Starship delivery robot.

Self-driving children’s author launches new Tech Career book at Parliament

Cars of the Future self-driving event report: Technology Books for Children at House of Commons, 13 October 2025

Self-driving like Knight Rider? London teens don’t get the reference

Are the next generation ready for self-driving? We visited a London sixth form college to find out.

Keynote Q&A with US self-driving pioneer Corey Clothier

Corey Clothier, of ARIBO AV, talks self-driving acceleration – safely moving from feasibility studies and demos to deployment at scale.

Self-driving YouTuber JJRicks on his most incredible Waymo moments

Since 2020, self-driving enthusiast Joel Johnson has carefully documented Waymo’s progress across 199 JJRicks videos

Spotlight on UK self-driving funding at CAM Pathfinder Launch, 9 October 2025

Cars of the Future self-driving event report: CAM Pathfinder Launch at the University of Warwick

Self-driving straight-talking: Missy Cummings wows PAVE UK Luncheon in London, 10 October 2025

Self-driving expert Professor Missy Cummings addresses Partners for Automated Vehicle Education (PAVE) UK event in London.

Sign-up today for free Beam webinar on the EU Data Act: Wed 22 October

V2X experts Beam Connectivity will run a free webinar on the new EU Data Act on the morning of Wednesday 22 October 2025

On-road UK self-driving experience: Ohmio LIFT in Milton Keynes, 25 Sep 2025

On-road in Milton Keynes in our reigning Self-Driving Vehicle of the Year, the Ohmio LIFT shuttle

Meet our 2025 Self-Driving Industry Awards partners

2025 Self-Driving Industry Award partners: BEN, BSI, CCAV, Cenex Expo, ITS UK, PAVE UK, techUK and Zenzic.

Self-driving at Cenex 2025: New funding, exceptional panels and a sensational selection of automated vehicles

Cars Of The Future self-driving event report: Cenex Expo 2025, 3-4 September at UTAC Millbrook

New self-driving test ride video! We experience Nissan’s world-leading automated driving on winding English country roads at 50+mph

It’s all very well self-driving on the wide sun-drenched boulevards of California, but can they do it on the twisty, unmarked, pothole-ridden lanes of Bedford? Nissan can. Having covered the exciting UK development of Nissan’s automated driving (AD) technology over many years, from HumanDrive and ServCity, to the most recent evolvAD project, we finally got […]

Event preview: Cenex Expo 2025 – where self-driving and net zero meet

Self-driving experts and exhibitors confirmed for Cenex Expo 2025, 3-4 September at UTAC Millbrook

From London to The Highlands and Islands: Green light for 14 new UK self-driving projects

Multiple new UK self-driving feasibility studies get go ahead as 2025 CAM Pathfinder Competition winners announced

Self-driving emergency assistance! New DfT research explores passenger needs in nightmare fire, flood and sickness scenarios

New Department for Transport research into emergency scenarios by 2024 Self-Driving Industry Award winner Dr Clare Mutzenich.

Entries Open for Self-Driving Industry Awards 2025

Got a great self-driving product? Enter the Self-Driving Industry Awards 2025

UK self-driving takes centre stage at MOVE 2025

Self-driving event report: Cars of the Future at MOVE London 2025

Vociferous Applause for AV Act at ITS UK Parliamentary Reception, 17 June

AV event report: Intelligent Transport Systems UK Parliamentary Reception, June 2025

Cars of the Future – the UK’s No.1 for self-driving – in print again for Summer 2025

Your favourite self-driving news back in print for Summer 2025

Back to the future for UK self-driving: Green light for advanced trials from Spring 2026

Self-driving makes headlines thanks to major UK government announcement… and LA protests

Self-driving tourism: The natural endpoint for AVs for leisure

Q&A with Alex Bainbridge, of Autoura, on the first digital sightseeing products for self-driving vehicles.

Self-driving event review: APPG Road to Growth, May 2025

Calls to accelerate advanced trials, investment and public education at UK self-driving APPG

Resistance exhibition at self-driving awards venue highlights 20th century campaigns for clean air and accessible transport

We Want Clean Air and Campaign for Accessible Transport protesters celebrated at home of Self-Driving Industry Awards.

Nonagenarian approval for Nissan evolvAD self-driving project 2025

93-year-old Brad Ashton on Nissan’s evolvAD self-driving project: This is the future of motoring

Moving UK self-driving from surviving to thriving – CAM Innovators 2025

UK self-driving event report: Zenzic Connected and Automated Mobility Innovators’ Day 2025

Self-Driving PR launches SDPR 4 CAM marketing campaign

With a proven track record in mobility marcomms and events, the Self-Driving PR team work closely with Cars Of The Future

End of the road for self-driving pioneers Cruise and CAVForth

Cruise’s departure leaves Waymo way out in front in US self-driving, but what about the UK?

Self-Driving Industry Awards 2024: Event best bits and media coverage

A huge thank you to everyone who entered the second annual Cars of the Future Self-Driving Industry Awards. Here’s a short video of the presentation ceremony at the Turner Contemporary in Margate on 22 November 2024… Self-Driving Media Coverage Here’s some selected media coverage of #sdia24. In particular, we were very proud to give 30+ […]

Self-Driving Event Report: BSI Webinar, November 2024

UK national standards body organises online event to answer frequently asked self-driving questions.

Lacuna Agency: 2024 Self-Driving Industry Award Winner for Research

Award-winning self-driving market research by Dr Clare Mutzenich of Lacuna Agency (formerly 7th Sense UK).

The Self-Driving Vehicle of the Year Award 2024 goes to… The Ohmio Lift shuttle

Ohmio Lift shuttle wins Self-Driving Industry Vehicle of the Year Award 2024… and Margate public get to try it

Accelerating self-driving: Zenzic’s Cracknell on CAM Scale-Up 2024

Mark Cracknell of Zenzic on the latest self-driving technologies being boosted by the CAM Scale-Up programme

Budget day 2024 great self-driving events: Ohmio shuttle at the NEC

Another real live UK self-driving experience: Ohmio Lift shuttle at the NEC in Birmingham

Kodiak announces new self-driving logistics partners and big name trucking committee

In Texas, your next order of fries might have been delivered by a self-driving HGV

New UK self-driving pilot: Ohmio shuttles to link Birmingham International to the NEC

The Solihull & Coventry Automated Links Evolution (SCALE) self-driving shuttle project will launch in Q4 2024

Self-driving and clean fuel at Cenex Expo 2024

Cutting-edge self-driving and clean fuel technologies on show at Cenex Expo 2024

Self-driving safety accelerator: Kognic turns sensor-fusion into datasets you can trust

Steven Spieczny of Kognic gives us the lowdown on sensor-fusion annotation for ADAS and self-driving…

Turbo-charging UK self-driving SMEs: Zenzic announces 2024 CAM Scale-Up winners

To accelerate self-driving in the UK, Zenzic has announced six more exceptional SMEs to receive up to £100k each as part of its prestigious CAM Scale-Up programme. 22 self-driving innovators have been supported by the programme since 2020. This is the fifth ‘cohort’, and we’ve covered the journeys of multiple 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020 winners […]

Self-Driving Industry Awards 2024: Meet the Judges – Corey Clothier, ARIBO

Corey Clothier, Co-founder of ARIBO, will once again be on the judging panel for the Self-Driving Industry Awards, focussed on AV strategy, development and deployment

Will I buy a self-driving car?

Following Uber’s investment in Wayve, we ask: who will own self-driving cars?

Set the self-driving safety bar high: Oxa demands explainability in data sharing

Cars Of The Future on an exceptional self-driving roundtable feat. road safety campaigner Meera Naran MBE and Oxa co-founder Prof Paul Newman CBE.

Editor’s Comment: Finally, my 1st ever ride in a self-driving car on public roads in the UK – thanks Oxa!

Cars Of The Future editor Neil Kennett goes self-driving in the UK, courtesy of Oxa.

Self-Driving Industry Awards 2024 – meet the judges: Alex Bainbridge

Alex Bainbridge, Founder and CEO of Autoura, will once again be on the judging panel for the Self-Driving Industry Awards, focussed on commercialisation and customer experience