Tag: safety
Volvo connected cars and trucks to share road safety data
Vehicles will alert each other to dangerous driving conditions.
Volvo Cars and Volvo Trucks have unveiled a joint cloud-based Connected Safety service that enables connected...
Uber Elevate: Air-taxi service still grounded by earthbound problems
Uber’s annual Elevate conference kicks off in Los Angeles today, at which the company will provide further details of its 'UberAIR' plans to take...
Deep-sea IoT: Diver tracking device surfaces for launch
Divers will soon be able to access a connected device that can track their position in the sea and alert emergency services when they...
Drones: FLIR eyes emergency services market with DroneSense investment
Thermal imaging specialist FLIR has announced a strategic investment in DroneSense, a Texas-based software platform that aims to help emergency services manage drone operations.
The move...
Waymo applies for driver-free autonomous cars tests in California | Analysis
Waymo, the driverless technology division of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, has applied to test completely autonomous cars on California roads, without safety drivers onboard.
Waymo...
The pet set: Unisys IoT connects air passengers with their pets
Information and technology company Unisys has bolstered its Digistics suite of logistics solutions with Digi-pet, a system of sensors and applications to track the...
Toyota halts autonomous car tests after Uber accident
NEWSBYTE: Toyota has suspended testing its Chauffeur driverless car system on US roads.
The move follows the death of a pedestrian who was hit by...
Lights, camera, ID! Ford offers remote ID solution for drones
Car manufacturer Ford has announced a potential solution to the problem of identifying drones from a distance.
In the US, Ford is the sole representative of the...
Vodafone to trial air traffic control system for drones
Telecoms giant Vodafone has announced trials of an air traffic control system for drones. The company is using its 4G mobile network and Internet...
MIT’s NanoMap helps drones to navigate safely at high speed
Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have developed a sophisticated computer vision system for flying robots.
NanoMap allows drones to navigate through...