The ethics of driverless vehicles discussed with Nick Reed on Highways Voices
“People did not want self driving vehicles to protect the occupants more than other road users,” Professor Nick Reed explains on this week’s Highways Voices podcast as he discusses how to program driverless cars ethically. “The participants in our survey and workshops are quite clear that other road users have not necessarily chosen to be exposed […]
Podcast delayed by production issues – will be published tomorrow
In a rare moment of technical difficultly, the Highways Voices podcast production has been delayed and this week’s edition will not be published on Wednesday morning. The programme, featuring driverless cars expert Nick Reed, will now be uploaded on Thursday. Don’t miss it, it’s a good one!
Driverless technology expert publishes key “ethical roads” report
A leading expert in driverless technology has published research into how the public feels driverless vehicles should be programmed to make the right ethical decisions while driving on our roads. You can listen to Nick Reed discuss this in an exclusive interview on the Highways Voices podcast this Wednesday, 12 July,. Professor Nick Reed’s study […]
Saboteurs work out a way to stop driverless vehicles in San Francisco
A group of activists in San Francisco have begun stopping driverless cars from travelling around the city by putting traffic cones on the bonnets of cars. Pedestrian safety group Safe Street Rebel have posted a video of them stopping the vehicles in a simple way. They claim driverless taxis pose dangers and are pushing their […]
Musk predicts self-driving Teslas this year
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has told a conference that he believes his company will upgrade its vehicles to fully self-driving in 2023. The London Evening Standard newspaper reports that he told the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai that Tesla was “closer to it than we ever have been”. “In terms of where Tesla is […]
UAE Cabinet approves testing of self-driving vehicles on its roads
The UAE government has given a permit to driverless car company WeRide The approval was given at a Cabinet meeting this week chaired by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai. It was the first licence of its kind for self-driving vehicles to run […]
Driverless cars mentioned in reworking of iconic song
A reworking of the 1980s iconic song We Didn’t Start The Fire has featured driverless cars as one of the key moments in the last 30 years. The band Fall Out Boy has reworked the history-based Billy Joel song by singing about world events since the original was released in 1989. Along with everything from […]
San Francisco Police chief backs fire counterpart’s driverless warning
The Chief of Police in the Californian City of San Francisco has backed the city’s fire chief in questioning the roll-out of driverless vehicles there. Last week Fire Officer Jeanine Nicholson called for the “pause button to be pushed” on driverless use because of evidence they were getting in the way of fire trucks by […]
San Francisco fire chief calls for “pause button” to be pushed on driverless cars
San Francisco’s fire chief has spoken of safety concerns around the growing number of driverless cars being trialled in the city, which have been delaying emergency vehicles. “I’m not anti-technology. What I am anti is getting in the way of public safety when we’re trying to do our jobs,” San Francisco Fire Department Chief Jeanine […]
SMLL adds co-operative infrastructure features to test bed
The TRL-led Smart Mobility Living Lab has added new co-operative, connected Intelligent Transport Systems trials to validate the performance of connected and autonomous vehicles. The SMLL was at the heart of the recent ServCity project, which saw a Nissan Leaf self-driving around the streets in Woolwich in Southeast London, demonstrated the potential for receiving live […]