Driverless car security blueprint being developed
O2 has helped develop a blueprint to help protect the UK’s self-driving cars from cyber-vulnerabilities. Working with Cisco, WMG at the University of Warwick and Millbrook Proving Ground, the telecoms company has completed the Innovate UK-funded Project BeARCAT looking at the cybersecurity vulnerabilities of connected and autonomous vehicles. BeARCAT, which stands for Baselining, Automation and […]
New driverless port opens in Tilbury
A new “unaccompanied” freight ferry terminal has opened east of London in the port of Tilbury. The 500,000-unit freight-only facility uses a “truck driver-free operation”, meaning freight is transported into the UK without needing lorry drivers to accompany it. The owners Forth Ports say this comes at an opportune time when infection control is uppermost […]
Amazon moving further into driverless vehicle sector
Amazon’s reported to be in advanced talks to buy the self-driving car start-up Zoox, the company which describes itself as producing “more than just a car with a computer.” The Wall Street Journal says that Amazon’s set to pay US$3.2 billion (£2.6 billion) for the company, which is apparently lower than recent market valuations. But […]
Mobileye CEO predicts consolidation in CAV industry
The head of Intel-owned Mobileye says companies will have to consolidate in the autonomous vehicle sector because it’ll be too difficult for independent businesses to co-operate. Reuters quotes Amnon Shashua as saying the strategy of individual companies focusing on one component, like safety, sensors or maps, is not sustainable because it’s an “end-to-end system” that […]
University predicts 5G the key to CAV safety
A new report is boosting the public’s awareness of the potential for 5G to facilitate driverless vehicle take up, predicting that connectivity will drastically reduce the number of road accidents Glasgow Caledonian University researchers have published findings from a study saying 5G’s high-speed-low-delay nature will improve the reliability and capability of automated vehicles to the point […]
Waymo resumes driverless testing
Google’s driverless car project Waymo is restarting testing, having suspended it in March to protect employees from Coronavirus. In a blog post on its website it says people in Phoenix, Arizona will see Waymos back on the road Arizonans will begin to see some Waymo vehicles back on the road, “after careful consideration and active […]
Law Commission sets out driverless pod thoughts
The law governing Highly Automated Road Passenger Services (HARPS) cannot be one-size-fits-all, because that’d risk favouring one type of vehicle over another. The Law Commission of England and Wales, along with the Scottish Law Commission, has set out its ideas for regulation of the industry, from small, low-speed pods to full size buses. They propose […]
Waymo virtually driving 20 million miles a day
Google’s driverless car division Waymo has reached the milestone of simulating a daily total of 20 million miles of autonomous driving on virtual roads as it tries out new scenarios for its software. SiliconAngle.com reports that the testing replicates congested roads, intersections and other challenging driving environments with engineers able to tweak these simulations to make […]
Half of UK drivers don’t trust driverless
A new survey suggests that half of Britain’s drivers don’t trust driverless vehicles, with only eight per cent saying they’d feel completely safe in one. Opinium surveyed 2000 people for InsureTheGap also found only a fifth agree driverless cars are a great innovation, while one in seven (14 per cent) saying they’d consider buying one […]
Uber using AI to predict traffic
Uber’s come up with an Artificial Intelligence solution to predict traffic movement with, it says, a high degree of accuracy. It’s published a paper saying it’s come up with a new way of simplifying the modelling used to predict how vehicles move around by constantly re-evaluating to produce more realistic trajectories each time. This is […]