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Peugeot, Citroën to test autonomous cars with 'non-expert' drivers
Peugeot and Citroën to test self-driving cars with 'non-expert' drivers Groupe PSA is the first auto manufacturer to gain the right to test autonomous vehicles on French public roads with non-expert drivers. Normally when autonomous cars are tested on public roads, they are usually controlled by a professional driver who is tasked with the safe testing of the vehicle, quite...
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Toyota in €1.7m marketing drive
Toyota Ireland has spent €1.7m in the past six months on advertising and marketing in a bid to get motorists to switch to hybrid vehicles. Toyota has also lobbied politicians in a bid to secure Vat relief on company fleets which move over to hybrids as well as an extension of the VRT grant for hybrid vehicles to 2020. As...
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UK Government scheme for scrapping diesel cars
UK scrapping scheme for diesel cars Drivers in the UK are being urged by their Transport Secretary, Chris Grayling to take a long hard look at their options before buying diesel cars He made the comments after the UK Government published its latest plans for cutting urban air pollution. This highlights the real possibility that the UK will soon restrict...
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Norway wants to ban petrol and diesel cars
Norway to ban diesel and petrol cars Norway is a huge proponent of electric vehicles. Not only does it offer massive tax breaks to EV buyers, but last year, portions of the Norwegian government proposed seeking an all-out ban on all petrol and diesel-powered cars by the year 2025. Although Norway seemed to be going in that direction last year,...
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Renault, Nissan and Transdev to develop driverless vehicle fleet system
Driverless vehicle fleet system Renault, Nissan and Transdev have joined forces in a new alliance to jointly explore development of mobility services with fleets of electric driverless vehicles for public and on-demand transportation. We are all familiar with Renault and Nissan but some may not be too familiar with Transdev, formerly Veolia Transdev. They are a French-based international private public...
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Will Electric Vehicles Drive Mechanics Out of Business?
Electric Vehicles could drive traditional mechanics out of business Traditionally, when a motorist went to a mechanic shop, the mechanic had to figure out what was wrong with the car first from experience and then repair what was wrong. Today, things are rapidly changing. Now mechanics just insert an OBD-II scanner and it tells you what to replace. (Onboard Diagnostics...
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Will Autonomous Cars of the Future be Gyms on the Go?
Will Autonomous Cars of the Future be Gyms on the Go? Have you ever thought about what you could do in an autonomous vehicle if you didn’t have to drive? Well, using your car for something other than just driving is not that far away and there will be endless possibilities opened up to what people can do behind the...
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Ford engineers are falling asleep at the wheel of self-driving cars
Ford Falling asleep at the wheel in autonomous cars Ford have been developing and testing their own autonomous vehicles and they have discovered during research that their engineers have been falling asleep at the wheel in Level 3 automated cars. There are five different categories or level of automation in vehicles and the Level 3 cars require both human and...
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Tesla driver heroically uses his car to stop a runaway Volkswagen
Hero Tesla driver uses his car to stop a runaway Volkswagen A Tesla Model S owner has heroically used his car to stop a runaway Volkswagen on an Autobahn in Germany The Tesla driver made headlines this week when he used his €80,000+ electric car to bring a runaway Volkswagen Passat to a halt on a German Motorway. The Tesla...
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Ford reveals some concerns about self driving cars
Ford share concerns about autonomous cars The Chief Executive Officer of Ford, Mark Fields is revealing a major fear about self--driving cars as they are moving full speed ahead with its self-driving cars. Ford aims to have fully autonomous commercial cars on the road by 2021 but they aren’t the only company trying to bring self-driving cars to market in...