US announces more driverless standards
The US Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has issued a final rule to modernise numerous Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards. It’s also designed to clarify what the NHTSA calls ambiguities in current occupant protection standards for vehicles equipped with automated driving systems that are designed without traditional manual driver controls. The rule amends several […]
American voters back public transport spending
In a series of votes run alongside the US Presidential Election, voters in a number of American cities have largely backed increased spending on public transport initiatives. Streetsblog has collated the results of votes across the country and says a two new light rail lines been approved on its third attempt in Austin, Texas costing […]
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 […]
American transport dept uses connected buses as wifi hotspots
Transport officials in the American city of Columbus have come up with a way to help disadvantaged people get online at home, by beefing up the wifi on their buses and parking them near homes. Central Ohio Transit Authority realised it had a way to help schoolchildren without internet connectivity cope with distance learning to […]
Driverless prescription deliveries introduced in the US
The American driverless car solution Nuro has teamed up with pharmacy chain CVS to trial social-distanced deliveries of prescriptions. In a blog on its website it says this first-of-its-kind partnership brings Nuro into the health space where it will utilise its fleet of autonomous vehicles to deliver prescriptions and essentials across three zip codes in […]
