Firm takes on multinationals with driverless delivery van
A start-up firm from Guildford in Surrey is going head to head with a glut of multinationals by developing a driverless delivery van called the Kar-Go. The Academy of Robotics founded by entrepreneur William Sachiti has has created the Kar-Go concept vehicle which will be unveiled in London on Wednesday, June 14. The Kar-Go controls […]
Driverless cars and the future rules of the road
When did you last read the Highway Code cover to cover? Probably when you were swotting for your driving theory test. But many of those 85-year-old rules of the road are going to need a rethink in the next few years thanks to driverless and driver-assist technologies. The code was a quick and easy-to-read 18-pages […]
Google’s blunder with a bus
It had to happen sooner or later. Google’s driverless car seems to have caused a crash. It collided with a bus as it pulled out at a junction. The bus was travelling at 15 mph, the car at 2 mph. Thankfully no one was injured. The car’s human driver saw the bus in the left-side […]
How KPMG sees driverless evolving and affecting the insurance industry
You may have heard all sorts of wild and wonderful predictions about driverless cars over the last year or so: we’ll never need to drive again or have to buy car insurance. There’ll be no more road accidents. They can be hacked with a £10 laser pointer. They can’t see in the mist or handle […]
10 Things we won’t miss when driverless cars rule the road
There have been lots of predictions made about how driverless cars will affect us in the future. From giving us back the time we lose to commuting to whizzing along the motorway at 200mph as part of a platoon of cars, there could be lots to look forward to. But there are also some everyday […]
The State of Driverless Play
Across the world Driverless cars aren’t just being developed and tested in the UK. It’s a global phenomenon. Governments across the world – from the US, UK, Australia, Germany, and France, to Sweden and Japan – are backing the development of autonomous vehicles, their official name. It’s not just established motor manufacturers like Ford, BMW, […]
The Payoffs and Pitfalls of Owning vs. Hiring a Driverless Car
We’ve all been there: sat in a queue waiting to get into the car park, praying the FULL sign will switch to 1 SPACE AVAILABLE. Or if we’re not in a queue, we’re searching the city’s side roads for that elusive on-street parking spot. The trouble with owning our own cars – forgive the pun […]
Can cars choose who lives and who dies?
In a word, no. But that hasn’t halted a fierce debate that has been raging for years about how a computerised car might assess human life in an accident. First thought up in the 1960s, the so-called ‘Trolley Problem’ is now being projected onto driverless cars, raising some rather morbid moral questions. In it’s traditional […]