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Tesla begins production of the Model 3
Tesla Model 3 goes into production Tesla is shutting down its Fremont factory in California for a week this month to prepare its assembly line for its highly anticipated lower priced electric car, the Model 3. Tesla had this to say last week, “This will allow Tesla to begin Model 3 production later this year as planned and enable us...
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UK to remove insurance barriers for self-driving cars
Insurance barriers to be removed for self-driving cars New insurance rules are now being introduced in Britain plans to ensure victims of accidents involving self-driving cars are compensated quickly. This will aid in opening up the self-driving car market by removing a major obstacle to the nascent industry. Up until now, the introduction of self-driving cars has been hampered by...
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Will you need a Driving Licence for a Self-Driving Car?
Will you need a Driving Licence for a Self-Driving Car? Future generations of motorists may find they will not need a driving licence, as we know it today. The first driving licences in the world were issued back in 1903 in the United Kingdom and Ireland. If your car can drive itself and has a robot driver, why would you...
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Insurance industry bracing for major change with the arrival of Self-Driving Cars?
Major changes could affect insurers with the arrival of Self-Driving Cars Will the inevitable arrival of autonomous vehicles on a mass scale send the auto insurance industry over a cliff? Some are saying that if you have a motor insurance business it may not exist in 20 years. Why? You can blame the seismic shift that is occurring in the...
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Back to the Future! The Top Ten Hydrogen Powered Cars
Back to the Future! The Top Ten Hydrogen Powered Vehicles Japanese car maker Honda and the American giant, General Motors, are investing $85 million to mass produce the hi-tech that will power hydrogen cars by 2020. Honda and GM aren't the only ones exploring the potentiality of hydrogen-powered cars. Many other automakers are seeing a future in them alongside electric...
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Autonomous Cars Will self Learn Like Mobile Phones
Self Learning Autonomous Cars At the moment we get daily updates from our smartphones for our apps and the operating systems even getting these updates while we sleep. It is proposed that we will also get automated updates for our smart cars in the future which will help the car to handle cyclists, dogs, balls rolling into the path of...
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Daimler to build electric cars in existing Mercedes plants
Daimler to build electric cars in existing Mercedes plants The German carmaker Daimler (DAIGn.DE) is planning to build their new electric cars in existing Mercedes plants by integrating them with serial production of cars with combustion engines, the group said. Markus Schaefer, Mercedes-Benz Cars production chief said on Wednesday"In this way, we are taking advantage of the opportunities offered by...
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Electric cars and solar power could halt fossil fuel growth by 2020
Electric cars and solar power Electric cars and solar power are considered game-changers according to latest reports. An Imperial College and Carbon Tracker reports suggest that these technologies are consistently underestimated by many. It is believed that falling costs of solar panels and also electric vehicles and possibly a combination of both could halt the worldwide growth in demand for...
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U.S. regulator closes investigation into Tesla car fatality - no evidence of defects
U.S. regulator closes investigation into Tesla car fatality - no evidence of defects U.S. regulators said on Thursday that they found no evidence of any defects in Tesla cars following the death of a man who was killed while driving his Tesla Model S. The Tesla car collided with a truck while the autopilot system was engaged. This is the...
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Nissan Reveals How Connected Cars Are Turning Into A Goldmine
Nissan Connected Cars set to be a Goldmine Nissan’s global after-sales chief, Kent O’Hara, has revealed that connected car data that it receives from their vehicles will be a goldmine. Smart car connectivity “will allow us to retain more service customers at our dealership network,”. Car service is a major profit source for car makers and even more so for...