Leading consultant creates Britain’s oldest connected car
One of the world’s foremost experts in transport technology has demonstrated how any car can benefit from today’s connectivity by showing traffic information messages in a 1914 Model T Ford as part of the UK’s “Drive it Day” for Classic cars. White Willow Consulting founder Andy Graham fitted a mobile phone with an app developed […]
VW planning on-demand vehicle features
Carmaker Volkswagen is planning to include all features in all their cars, but use connected vehicle technology to charge drivers for the ones they use. Top Gear magazine has spoken to the German company which says it plans to have cars “crammed full of tech and features” which the user can turn on and off […]
Oxbotica and Navtech launch radar-based localisation system
Driverless vehicle developer Oxbotica and radar developer Navtech have launched what they say is the world’s first all-weather radar localisation solution for industrial autonomous vehicles, typically accurate to less than 10cm on any vehicle, in any environment. Combining Navtech’s patented FMCW radar sensor and Oxbotica’s autonomy software platform, Terran360 is an entirely new offering to […]
Driverless expert says vehicles must be designed with misuse in mind
One of the world’s leading experts in automated vehicles has told the latest Highways Voices podcast that developers must accept drivers may not use their vehicles correctly and put in the relevant safeguards to minimise risk. Listen here. Consultant Professor Nick Reed of Reed Mobility was referring to cases such as the driver who put […]
VW investigated over “April Fools Joke”
A press release which suggested the German carmaker Volkswagen would be renaming itself “Voltswagen” to reflect its electric vehicle aspirations is being investigated by financial regulators in America after the company’s share price rose on the announement. German newspaper Der Spielgel reports that the Securities and Exchange Commission is checking after the spoof release was […]
Villagers fight HE’s road closure plan
A group of residents in a village near Peterborough have set up an action group to try to stop Highways England closing one of their two access roads. The Peterborough Telegraph reports that the closure plan is part of a multi-million pound dualling of a 1.6 mile section of A47 single carriageway between Wansford and […]
Driverless pod on show in Lake District
The Lake District National Park demonstrating a driverless pod to visitors in order to explore how Connected and Autonomous Vehicles could offer residents and visitors “accessible and sustainable” transport to reduce the need to drive and to cut carbon. The Pod is at the visitor centre at the Brockhole grounds until the end of the […]
A lesson in the value of transport modelling in this week’s Highways Voices podcast
This week’s Highways Voices responds to the comments on the podcast from March when local authorities were urged to make more use the data they gather by using transport modelling. Listen here. Gav Jackman, Managing Director of the UK division of global modelling company Aimsun, explains what the data is used for and how it […]
TfL boss targets Elizabeth Line Christmas opening
London’s transport commissioner wants the new Elizabeth Line Crossrail service open by Christmas. The Evening Standard reports Andy Byford is “spending his days focused on the twin challenges of getting the long-delayed, over-budget line open slightly ahead of the latest estimate, while encouraging passengers back onto the Tube and buses”. The report adds that official […]
HERE adds more weather data to its marketplace product
HERE Technologies has announced that Tomorrow.io, the weather technology company, will be making its weather data available via the HERE Marketplace – a hub for global location data exchange and a platform to build location intelligent applications that accelerate data-driven innovation across industries. HERE says that as it continues to rapidly expand the number of […]