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Car companies back away from self-driving cars rush

Toyota intends to launch its first autonomous car next year but car manufacturers are now pushing back on the technology needed to introduce driverless cars.
Motors • 30 Oct 19

Driverless cars can improve traffic flows by 35 per cent – study.

A Cambridge University study using miniature robotic cars has found that by "talking to each other" they could improve traffic flow by some 35 per cent.
Motors • 26 May 19

Volvo says it must guarantee safety of self-driving cars

The head of Volvo's self-driving programme has said the company has to accept liability for self-driving cars to allow the public and authorities to have full confidence in them. His comments come as another expert warns of the dangers of self-driving.
Motors • 16 May 18

Should self-driving cars drive like people do ?

Should a runaway self-driving vehicle choose between killing one person or five ? That's one of the questions posed by Johannes Himmelreich of Stanford University's Mc Coy Centre for Ethics in Society.
Motors • 15 Apr 18

Google ready to launch fully self-driving cars on public roads

In another example of how tech companies have blindsided the conventional car industry, Google now looks set to be the first company to launch the fully self-driving cars. And the public will be test driving them "in months".
Motors • 08 Nov 17

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