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Shannon to be a world centre for self-driving cars according to Jaguar
Shannon to be a world centre for autonomous vehicles The head of Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) worldwide claimed this week that Ireland's highly skilled and "very special" workforce could make a Shannon-based autonomous car project a world leader within five years. Jaguar plans to develop advanced automated driving and electrification technologies on the west coast. Dr Ralf Speth said Jaguars...
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Apple now has more than 50 autonomous cars on the road
Apple now has more than 50 autonomous cars on the road Apple is continuing to develop its self-driving program and they now have more than 5o autonomous cars on the road. The tech company has doubled the number of its self-driving cars according to the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). Apple's fleet size has steadily risen since obtaining a...
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Elon Musk declares dual-motor Tesla Model 3 a BMW M3 rival
Elon Musk has detailed plans to build a new dual-motor all-wheel-drive version of the Tesla Model 3. He made the announcement in a string of Tweets revealing the most powerful of the two twin-motor Model 3s would be capable of hitting 60mph (97km/h) in just 3.5 seconds and topping out at 155mph (250km/h), while offering a driving range of up...
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What will driverless cars mean for Ireland's road safety?
Driverless cars and road safety Driverless cars are the future and in just a few short years will be part of everyday life here in Ireland. What though will the impact be on society in general and how will driverless autonomous vehicles impact us? Earlier this month experts from around the world gathered in Dublin to speak about the future...
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Experimental ‘robot car’ that can see through fog
A research team at the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is claiming that they have had a breakthrough in obstacle detection for the future’s autonomous cars. The researchers will demonstrate its latest development in autonomous car technology at ‘RobotSENSE’ in Ulm, Germany today, May 16. The detection system is installed in a Citroen and they have playfully nicknamed it...
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Tesla owner banned from driving for sitting in the passenger seat
A Tesla owner in the UK has been banned from driving for 18 months because he activated the car's autopilot system and then transferred to the passenger seat while travelling on the M1. Bhavesh Patel, aged 39, of Alfreton Road, Nottingham, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving at St Albans Crown Court on Friday, April 20. The court heard that at...
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BMW opens new campus for self-driving cars
BMW has opened new a brand new campus for self-driving cars near Munich, in preparation for introducing its own self-driving car to the auto market. Germany has certainly been focused on the electric self-driving car market, with German companies holding nearly 50 percent of the patents in the world for driverless car technology. BMW is taking this vested interest a...
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What is the future of Self-driving cars in the wake of the fatal Uber collision?
What is the future of Self-driving cars in the wake of the fatal Uber collision? Video of the first self-driving car crash that killed a pedestrian suggests a “catastrophic failure” by Uber’s technology, according to experts in the field, who said the footage showed the autonomous system erring on one of its most basic functions. The death of a Elaine Herzberg who...
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Jaguar to supply 20,000 cars to Google's self-drive ride-share company Waymo
From 2020 the ride-hailing service, Waymo will use Jaguar’s I-Pace cars as part of their fleet. Jaguar Land Rover will supply up to 20,000 of its new electric I-Pace cars to the Google Alphabet subsidiary. The plan is for the Jaguar cars to be converted into self-driving vehicles for its ride-hailing service. The deal was announced at the New York motor show...
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Swiss police to get Tesla Model X police cars for active duty
Swiss police from the Basel-Stadt police force are ordering Tesla Model X vehicles for active duty. The first of these will be delivered later on this year with seven included in the initial order. The new Swiss police cars will be cleaner, cheaper, and way faster than the patrol cars they are currently using. The decision to replace current diesel-powered vehicles...