The AV safety case: UK motor law expert expresses “real doubts” about proposed Highway Code changes
The warning lights are flashing on draft guidance to drivers in driverless cars.
The future is here, 2021: CAVForth buses will put UK on the driverless map
“We will be running autonomous buses this year. That’s an incredible milestone.”
Ethics in self-driving: The trolley problem strikes back
AI and IoT expert Karim Jaser presents a resolute defence of the trolley problem.
Self-driving and smart cities: stop wishcasting and get real with predictive simulation
CGA’s simulations train autonomous vehicles to deal with environments specific to the UK.
Developing test frameworks which build a bridge of trust to driverless cars in the UK
The UK’s National Physical Laboratory is working on a framework for virtual sensor testing.
Oxbotica secures huge BP investment and targets anything that moves people or goods
Autonomous vehicle software specialist set to become a major UK success story.
Using cameras and AI to protect vulnerable road users
Humanising Autonomy uses behavioural psychology and computer algorithms to make cities safer for pedestrians and cyclists.
Sharing data collected by connected cars
UK government sparks global business sharing transport sector data.
Why assuring machine learning is crucial to self-driving
Prof John McDermid says the trolley problem is a nonsense, requiring self-driving vehicles to make distinctions that you or I could not.
Self-driving news flash: flickering lights to replace eye contact in facilitating trust
Creative technologist Ushigome on future vehicle-to-pedestrian (V2P) communications.
Time for a grown-up conversation about cameras, AI, traffic flow and privacy
Vivacity Labs founder backs the citizen first vision of 21st century privacy.
Meet the maverick radar expert of UK drones and driverless
Bold predictions about our driverless future by petrolhead Clem Robertson.
Are driverless cars the future? Don’t believe the hype says Wolmar
In an explosive exclusive interview with Cars of the Future, transport expert Christian Wolmar presents a devastating critique of the self-driving dream.
Fully autonomous by 2023? Tesla leads the charge to self-driving cars
Given how quickly they’ve revolutionised the motor industry, who’s to say Tesla won’t also win the race to driverless?
Driverless delivery vehicle maker Nuro gets billion-dollar boost
Whenever anyone spends a billion dollars in the self-driving world it is probably worthy of a mention here. In this case, unmanned delivery vehicle specialist, Nuro, has been boosted by a US$940m investment from Japanese multinational, SoftBank. Founded in 2016 by two former Google engineers, Dave Ferguson and Jiajun Zhu, Nuro operates mainly in San […]
Must-see video: new driverless cars world record set in China
Guinness World Records posted a video of what is officially now the largest parade of autonomous cars ever. 55 self-driving cars built by Changan Autmobile set the record at the Dianjiang test site in Chongqing, China, on 28 November 2018. Design Boom reported that a 56th car was disqualified after the safety driver briefly took […]
Must-see video: VR world enables billions of driverless test miles
Having made its name in gaming graphics, it should come as no surprise that Nvidia has created an autonomous vehicle (AV) simulator – a computer platform which enables developers to design a near-infinite variety of conditions and scenarios for driverless cars. The US tech giant (which already has links with manufacturers including Audi, Mercedes, Tesla, […]
UK plans ‘advanced’ driverless car road trials… meaning no safety driver
Driverless cars are a hot topic in the UK today (6 February 2019) thanks to a Government announcement on “advanced trials for self-driving vehicles”. Stories ran in most of the biggest-selling newspapers focusing on the removal of the requirement for a safety driver. Actually, all the Department for Transport (DfT) committed itself to was to […]
A dystopian vision of polluted London
Recycling company First Mile has released this striking image of how London’s Oxford Street could look if we fail to tackle air pollution. Two technologies being championed to avoid such a dystopian fate are electric powertrains and route optimisation programmes – both popular concepts in connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV) design. However, new research by […]
Driverless river transport: the roboat
We profiled various “other driverless vehicles” in our recent bikes, trucks, bots and planes article, well here’s another one… and it has a great name: the roboat. So far, only small prototypes have been deployed but a bigger model with a 6x13ft hull is in development, featuring GPS, water quality testers, cameras and LIDAR. The […]
Driverless cars, bikes, trucks, bots and planes
Here at Cars of the Future we focus mainly on, er, cars… but when predicting how mobility might look by mid-century there are other driverless vehicles to consider. Driverless bikes Sky News reported last year on what it billed as the first self-driving motorbike, developed by British engineer Torquil Ross-Martin of AutoRd. “A computer can […]
Must-see video: driverless from San Francisco to New York
Self-driving tech company, Pronto.ai, has posted a timelapse video of what is believed to be the longest journey yet for a driverless car, set to poetry by Charles Bukowski. The vehicle in question, a Toyota Prius kitted out with digital maps and cameras, travelled 3,099 miles from the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco to […]
Can you love driving and driverless cars?
In an interview with Autocar last year, Jaguar Land Rover’s head of product strategy Hanno Kirner asserted that, in the age of driverless motoring, many keen drivers will still want to get behind the wheel. “Whether it is SVO (JLR’s performance arm) recreating classics to modern standards or creating track-day specials, I think it will […]
From high tech to highly debatable: self-driving at CES 2019
Here’s our round-up of some of the more interesting and lesser reported self-driving stories from this month’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas: First, there was the hoo-ha over a Promobot being run over by a Tesla Model S. While the Washington Post described the incident as “a bit of embarrassment for Tesla”, Electrek […]
New driverless car UK road trials
Since 2014, the UK government has invested over £120 million supporting over 70 connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV) projects, with a further £68 million coming from industry contributions. The most recent road trials to be announced include self-driving vehicles running on single-track roads in the Highlands and islands of Scotland. Other new initiatives include an […]
Park and charge: Hyundai video on EV automated parking
Hyundai has created an eye-catching video to show off its futuristic electric vehicle (EV) wireless charging system. The film shows a connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV) driving itself to a charging bay, being powered up via magnetic induction, and then parking itself in an ordinary bay nearby. The owner then summons the car using an […]
Totally driverless cars on sale by 2021
Facing stiff new competition from Tesla, tech giants like Apple and a plethora of well-funded start-ups, leading vehicle manufacturers are pouring money into driverless cars. In America, The Star reports that General Motors’ Cruise is battling with Google subsidiary Waymo to be the first to bring robot ride sharing to market. GM has even appointed […]
Which driverless car stocks are finance experts tipping?
With driverless vehicles being described as the biggest business opportunity since the creation of the internet, we’ve taken a look at which stocks finance commentators are tipping. In October, financial information website MarketWatch reported: “Analysts at Morgan Stanley estimated the market for driverless cars will reach more than $800 billion by 2050”. Brands it namechecked included: […]
Driverless is biggest business opportunity since internet
General Motors president Daniel Ammann says autonomous vehicles represent “the biggest business opportunity since the creation of the internet”. This new website – Cars Of The Future – will follow the story as it unfolds. Being UK-based, it’s pleasing to report that we’ve made a decent start. The UK was recently ranked the fifth best-prepared […]