Car News recent articles in category Human Interest
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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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Japan Easing Aging Drivers Out of Their Cars
Japan’s national police agency have reviewed statistics and have revealed that, drivers between 16 and 24 are more likely to cause traffic accidents more than any other age group but with that being said, the evidence suggests that last year in Japan, drivers over the age of 75 caused twice as many fatal accidents per 100,000 drivers as those under...
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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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Higher taxes on diesel ‘could reduce pollution and raise €500m’
An Oireachtas committee has assessed the impact of various taxes on the environment and have concluded that a higher excise on diesel would reduce pollution and raise €500m in tax revenue for the government. Ireland currently adds 48 cents of excise duty to each litre of diesel purchased compared with 59 cents for petrol. If the excise duty was...
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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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UAE motorists are opting for rental cars
UAE motorists are ditching cars in favour of rentals as options increase The thirty-somethings and tech-savvy millennials are opting for other options instead of owner and financing their own cars. They are used to using sharing economy apps and experts say that this particular demographic no longer own their own vehicles, thanks to the ever-increasing rise in car sharing services....
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Volkswagen and Audi Cars may be Vulnerable to Remote Hacking
Remote Hacking A cyber-security firm in the Netherlands has discovered that the in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) systems deployed with some car models from the Volkswagen Group are vulnerable to remote hacking. Researchers in security with Computest said they successfully tested their findings and exploit chains on Volkswagen Golf GTE and Audi A3 Sportback e-tron models (Audi is a brand part of...
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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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Driving Gender Divide - Men and Women Drift into Different Worlds When on Autopilot
It may seem stereotypically obvious but men and women “drift into different worlds when switched to ‘autopilot’… It is official – a study on the gender divide while driving reveals that men and women drift into different worlds when switched to ‘autopilot’ and hope for different benefits from future automotive advances. Women drivers are nearly twice as likely as their...
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What is Shared Mobility?
Shared Mobility Shared mobility services are transportation services shared amongst different users. These include: Public Transit Taxis Limos Shuttle Services Bike-sharing Car-pooling Van-pooling Shared transportation has grown rapidly over the years especially due to environmental, energy and economic concerns which have intensified the need for sustainable alternatives. Also with many advances in electronic and wireless technologies, it has made sharing...