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London police to use drones to catch speeding motorists
For the first time, police in London are planning to use a drone to catch speeding motorists. Scotland Yard will use the drone technology on some of the major routes into London later this month in a bid to reduce road deaths and injuries, particularly from speeding. Specialist drone operators will review aerial footage, which also has night vision capability,...
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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 EV Sports Car To Be Released in 2021
New concept electric sports car is set for release A new concept electric sports car is set for release in 2021. The hand-built Irish EV, the Spika (formerly, the Alex eRoadster) was unveiled at the Energy Show in the RDS (Royal Dublin Society) at the weekend (March 27-28, 2019) The ultra-lightweight, two-seat, high-performance prototype EV attracted huge public and media...
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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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Connected v Autonomous Vehicles. What’s the difference
Connected v Autonomous Vehicles So what is the difference between connected vehicles and autonomous vehicles? Sometimes it is not always clear what the two different technologies. Connectivity and automation are two of the biggest things in the automotive world right now and the development of these technologies is huge. These technologies naturally overlap in so many ways but there are...
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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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The City of Gothenburg wants to embrace autonomous cars
The way we move around our cities and towns is changing rapidly and now we are seeing a wave of new technological developments that will lead to the mass adoption of autonomous vehicles on the road. The potential mass adoption of autonomous cars is no longer the stuff of science fiction but in the very near future the way we...
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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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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...