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Hyundai to invest $35 billion in mobility by 2025
Hyundai Motor Group said it plans to invest 41 trillion won ($35 billion) in mobility and other auto technologies by 2025. Read more…
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Have automakers got the maths wrong with autonomous cars?
Automakers who are expecting to avoid a collapse in vehicle demand because autonomous vehicles will be replaced more frequently are in for a nasty shock. Read more…
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Autonomous cars – are we there yet?
Whatever the hype (and there is a ton of that) autonomous cars have hardly left the driveway. Two big issues are safety and security. Read more…
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Future cars: networked, safe, self-driving and shared
Experts agree that future cars will be networked, safe, self-driving and shared with far less risk of loss due to accidents on road. Read more…
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Autonomous vehicles tested using “virtual human” pedestrians
A “virtual human” suddenly steps out at a blind bend, but the engineer in the Volvo car’s driving seat on the test track doesn’t flinch. Read more…
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Friday Futures: the weather on Mars, AI driven cat toy
AV manufacturers and law enforcement want to avoid this problem. It could mean programming AVs to pull over as soon as they detect flashing police lights Read more…
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The problem with autonomous cars is not cars
There is a problem with autonomous cars. Actually there are a few but the one I discovered the other day may cause grid lock rather than free flowing traffic across our cities. I was in Read more…
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Flying taxis? We could do that, says Porsche sales chief
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Volkswagen’s sports car maker Porsche could develop a flying passenger vehicle to compete with rivals in a possible market for urban air taxis and ride-sharing services, Porsche sales chief Detlev von Platen Read more…
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Progress for autonomous cars is entering the ‘go slow’ zone
CES 2018 has now been and gone. The show organizers said that there were around 20,000 new products launched, but our sweep of news feeds and sources failed to ignite any real feeling that breakthroughs Read more…
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MWC17: Telefonica and Ericsson drive a remote controlled car 70 km away
BARCELONA (Reuters) – The brave new world of remote-controlled cars is now technically possible using wireless technologies which are set to be commonplace early in the next decade, Telefonica and Ericsson said at a test Read more…