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AA says legislation is needed in Ireland on self-driving cars
Legislation for self-driving cars There are concerns about who is liable in the event of a self-driving car being involved in a collision here in Ireland. Legislation on the use of autonomous and self-driving cars has to be introduced s preparation for the future of motoring, AA Ireland has warned. An AA survey has found that almost half of respondents...
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Toyota planning to sell more than 1 million electric cars by 2030
Toyota will manufacture one million electric cars by 2030 Toyota is planning to release at least 10 new EVs (Electric Vehicle) and fuel cell vehicles and also plan to have all cars electrified by 2025. The Japanese car manufacturer is the latest in a long line of car manufacturers announcing a significant push on electric vehicles in the next decade....
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Tesla Delivery Centres Ready to Deliver 100s of Cars Calming Production Fears
Tesla’s share price rose over 4 percent after reports circulated that hundreds of its production-plagued Model 3 cars are waiting at their delivery centres and will soon be delivered to customers. Hundreds of the highly anticipated Model 3 EV’s were spotted across the company’s delivery centres in California in the United States. These cars are obviously not being set aside...
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Apple Reveals More of its Self-Driving Technology
Apple has released results from several of the companies artificial intelligence AI projects. Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Apple’s director of artificial intelligence research addressed roughly 200 AI experts who had signed up for a free lunch and peek at how Apple uses machine learning, a technique for analyzing large stockpiles of data. Each of the projects involved giving software capabilities needed for...
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China Blocks Foreign Companies from Mapping Its Roads for Self-Driving Cars
As one can imagine, self-driving cars need high-quality digital maps to function properly. They not only utilise digital mapping to find their general location, but also in some cases to locate landmarks that aid maneuvering in low-viability situations, or when a GPS link isn't available. Digital map data has become a major priority for car manufacturers around the world, especially...
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Ford Executive claims that for now, Hybrids beat EVs as self-driving cars
Ford Executive claims that for now, Hybrids beat EVs as self-driving cars07 Thanks to the Chevrolet Bolt EV (Electric Vehicle) General Motors has been fairly successful in the development of their self-driving technologies. But Ford Motors thinks there a better solution than EVs, at least for the moment. They are developing autonomous technology using petrol-electric hybrids and not pure electric...
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Flying car startup wants to have the world's first flying car race in 2019
An Australian startup called Alauda have announced their plan to host the world’s first “flying car” race in the desert in 2019. The company has built its own scaled-down prototype, a racecar-shaped quadcopter called the Alauda Mark 1 Airspeeder. They plan to flight test the flying racecar in 2018 and in order to get the project off the ground (pun...
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California axes self-driving car rule limiting liability for crashes
California axes self-driving car rule limiting liability for crashes Sub-par maintenance is not going to let car manufacturers off the hook and as such, California is happy to tweak the rules just a bit to get more self-driving cars on the road. Even with some of the rules regarding self-driving cars being relaxed, there will still be limits. The state's...
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Chinese company Geely to launch flying cars after Terrafugia deal
The Chinese Automotive giant Zhejiang Geely Holding Group said last week that it will roll out its first flying car in 2019 in the United States. Geely acquired the Massachusetts-based startup Terrafugia, which is pioneering flying cars. As part of the acquisition, Geely has acquired all the Terrafugias’ operations and assets and has received all the necessary approvals for the...
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Tesla to make car in China in 3 years
Tesla to manufacture in China in 3 years Elon Musk, the founder and CEO of Tesla Motors has said that they are planning to manufacture cars in China in about 3 years. The autonomous EV company is setting a "rough target" of producing cars in China around 2020 and in particular, the Chinese manufacturing plant will focus on the crossover...