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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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Hyundai looks to Insects for Design Concepts of the Future
Car Design Concepts of the Future Chung Eui-sun, the 47-year-old vice chairman and heir to the South Korean motor empire Hyundai has revealed how his company is developing new technologies by observing insects and in particular, the study of spider eyes to keep the carmaker competitive. Chung Eui-sun, is counting on bugs and holograms to help the South Korean car...
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Uber teams with NASA to make flying cars
Uber is teaming up with NASA to simulate flying taxis in urban areas. Back in 2016, Uber unveiled their plans to develop electric flying cars so as to help improve transportation in cities and to alleviate congestion as well as providing affordable air transportation. NASA became a partner for the program in 2017 by developing air traffic management for a...
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Irish Billionaire focused on Electric cars
Dubliner Sir David McMurtry, co-founder and CEO of the €2.5bn precision manufacturing equipment maker Renishaw, is Ireland’s greatest living inventor and our most successful engineer. His company, Renishaw is a manufacturer whose metrology skills are today crucial to every car on the road and plane in the skies, as well as other applications, spanning medical to nuclear power. He has...
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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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World's first electrified road opens in Sweden
The world’s first electrified road, known as eRoadArlanda, has opened for the first time in Sweden. The eRoad recharges the batteries of cars and trucks driving on it. The Swedish government has already drafted a national map for future expansion of eRoads, but for the moment they have laid bout 2km of electric rail embedded in a public road near...
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Volvo to Give Google Assistant a Central Role in Its Next-Generation Cars
Google Assistant for Volvo's Next-Generation Cars Volvo has announced that it will embed voice-controlled Google Assistant, Google Play Store, Google Maps, and other Google services into its next-generation Sensus infotainment system. That means that Google Assistant will be the central voice interface to operate all the functions of their vehicle’s infotainment system from navigation commands, playing music, sending messages to...
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Could self-driving cars shrink car parks?
New research suggests that the adoption of self-driving cars or autonomous vehicles (AVs) as they are otherwise known, could significantly reduce the amount of valuable space given over to parking in urban areas. The senior author of a new study in Transportation Research Part B, Professor Matthew Roorda said: "In a parking lot full of AVs, you don't need to...
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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...