Car News recent articles in category Autonomous Vehicles
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Mood reading vehicles
New technology detects driver mood in a bid to reduce stress British manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover has set the bar high with their new technology that will have the ability to detect a driver's mood and adjust the car's settings in a bid to reduce stress. Using new artificial intelligence (AI) technology the group has produced a mood detection system,...
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Irish Electric Car Sales On The Increase
EV Sales So far this year, in the first quarter, there has been as many electric cars sold than in the whole of 2018. Industry figures have revealed that 330 new electric car were registered in Ireland during the month of February, compared to just 72 in the same month last year. So far this year, 1,129 electric cars have...
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Will Self-driving Cars Cruise the Streets Instead of Paying For Parking
Great question! Will self-driving car owners of the future allow their cars to cruise the streets on their own instead of paying for parking? A scenario like this could have the potential to cause traffic gridlock in the cities of the near future. Cheap autonomous car owners allowing their cars to self drive around the block as they pop into...
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Uber Resumes Testing Their Self-Driving Vehicles
Uber doesn’t really have a choice but to resume its testing of their self-driving vehicle as Waymo and GM have taken the lead with their autonomous vehicles. Uber is starting up its autonomous vehicle test program once again after an eight-month break, due to the company pausing its self-drive program back in March when one of its autonomous vehicles struck...
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BASF is working to make darker cars more visible to lidar
BASF is a German chemical corporation and is the largest chemical producer in the world. This chemistry giant is changing the way paint is formulated specifically to eliminate materials that absorb lidar. Lidar is probably the most critical technology which is currently utilised in the drive to develop autonomous cars. BASF wants to make the paints highly reflective to that...
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Police Catch Tesla Car Driving Itself On Autopilot With a Sleeping Drunk Behind the Wheel
Over in the United States, it took the police officers in two police patrol cars seven minutes to outsmart Tesla's Autopilot system. Maybe in the future people will be able to sleep at the wheel but right now, no matter how advanced an autopilot system may be, this is simply not possible with great safety at this present time. California...
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German carmakers test autonomous vehicles in China
Three of the biggest German car manufacturers, Audi, Mercedes and BMW are now conducting autonomous vehicle trials in China. The three luxury German car brands have been quietly testing autonomous vehicles in China despite Chinese rules that force them to partner with local software companies. As part of the process, they have agreed to use Chinese mapping and...
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Can Ireland become a global hub for autonomous cars?
John Cormican, general manager of vehicle engineering at Jaguar Land Rover Ireland believes that Ireland could become a global leader in AV development, especially on the west coast. It’s been a long time since Ireland has had a car manufacturing operation since it died off with Ford in 1984. There is a history in vehicle manufacturing here in Ireland...
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UPS to have a Fleet of Autonomous Vehicles
UPS is considering a fully autonomous future for its fleet. The company is caught in the middle on whether to aggressively pursue autonomous vehicles. Richard Peretz, UPS CFO told media, “In autonomous, we are kind of in between,” He went on to say that their autonomous driving efforts are being done in test environments and not on public roads...
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Autonomous Electric Vehicles Will Keep The Tokyo 2020 Olympics Moving
In 2020, Tokyo City in Japan will host the Olympics for the second time. Tokyo hosted the Olympics back in 1964, but not only has the event grown since then but also the city itself has grown unrecognisably since that time also, with Tokyo being the most populated city on earth, with approximately 38,140,000 people. The main city of Tokyo...