Waymo expands self-driving lorry project
Google’s driverless vehicle division Waymo is opening a new depot in Dallas, Texas to try out a fleet of autonomous 18-wheeler HGVs. The company’s told Forbes Magazine that it will hire local truckers to assist with evaluations on the highway. Forbes adds that the mapping of roads in Texas and New Mexico with high-definition cameras […]
Ford and Bosch trialling self-driving parking
A new trial to test self-parking technology for connected cars is getting underway in the American city of Detroit. Ford Motor Company has teamed up with technology firm Bosch and commercial property provider Bedrock to test whether vehicles can drive and park themselves. They say this is America’s first infrastructure-based solution for automated valet parking. […]
Driverless vehicles could end the need for traffic police
A senior academic in America has written a paper arguing that the introduction of driverless vehicles onto the world’s roads could mean there is no more need for human enforcement. Clifford Winston, a Senior Fellow at Searle Freedom Trust argues that autonomous vehicles could virtually eliminate the need to use police resources to enforce traffic […]
Two thirds of drivers “uncomfortable” with hands-free motorway driving
A YouGov survey suggests that the government has a challenge to win the public over to the idea of hands-free driving. A consultation was launched last week asking for evidence on using new technology for automated driving to keep the vehicle within its lane and in control without the driver needing to do anything but […]
Michigan creating CAV corridor
A world-first transport corridor for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles is being built between the technology innovation city of Ann Arbor and Detroit. The American State’s Governor Gretchen Whitmer (pictured) says the plan is to improve transport for communities in the region, closing long-standing gaps in access to transit. The project will create lanes that are […]
JLR teaches driverless cars to reduce motion sickness
Researchers at Jaguar Land Rover are working on software aimed at reducing reduce motion sickness in driverless cars. Studies have suggested that some of the benefits of autonomous driving, such as working or watching TV, might be offset by sickness felt by passengers. This was reported by Highways News earlier in the year. However designers […]
Highways England and Loughborough Uni in AV research project
Loughborough University scientists are to work with Highways England in a £1 million project aimed at ensuring the country’s motorways can accommodate connected and autonomous vehicles vehicles. Researchers will look at operations at roadworks, lane changing, junction manoeuvres and lane markings to understand the challenges CAVs may face. The project, named CAVIAR (Connected and Autonomous […]
Nissan adds multiple ADAS features to mid-range vehicle
In the late 90s car companies advertising in the UK were keen to promote air conditioning in their vehicles as a new standard – beforehand it’d been the preserve of only top-of-the-range vehicles. Now the same could be happening to automatic driver assistance systems. The £15,000 Nissan Sentra is offering a range of driver aids […]
Project “steers a new course for autonomous urban mobility”
A new international project is promising to accelerate the commercial viability of autonomous vehicles by using open-source software. Project ASLAN is a not-for-profit collaboration between universities, transport authorities, computer engineers and private enterprise. It says its open-source and rapidly deployable self-driving software platform has been launched expressly to foster engineering collaboration. The platform provides “mature […]
Americans to trial driverless lorries on Interstate
Driverless trucks are to be trialled on a stretch of the US Interstate network in Ohio and Indiana. The International Business Journal reports that Department of Transportation officials in the two states are preparing a stretch of Interstate 70 to test autonomous freight movements in a plan which “could serve as a model for other […]