Tag: Transport
US-China trade war could hit transport, smart home sectors Friday
Friday's likely escalation of the US-China trade dispute into a full-scale financial war will damage the US tech, IoT, and connected transport sectors, says...
Kroger to use driverless cars for last-mile grocery deliveries
Kroger, America’s largest supermarket chain, will be rolling out a driverless grocery delivery service in partnership with Nuro, a company started by two former...
Ford, Vandebilt self-drive team tackle Fourth of July gridlocks
Ford and Vanderbilt University reveal how adaptive cruise control can minimise the problem of phantom traffic jams.
With a record number of Americans gearing up...
Uber safety driver watching video before fatal crash, say police
UPDATED Arizona police report that the safety driver involved in the March’s fatal Uber crash was streaming a television show on Hulu before the...
City of Robots: How robotics & automation could solve cities’ most...
The future of the world will be urban, with the majority of people living in cities. In Asia and Africa, a burgeoning youth population...
Volvo looks to LiDAR startup to clear road towards autonomy
NEWSBYTE Volvo Cars has announced an investment in LiDAR startup Luminar that will see the latter provide its LiDAR sensing platform to Volvo, helping the...
Apple lands former Curiosity Mars rover engineer for self-drive project
Apple has continued its process of poaching key staff from its rivals, this time with the hire of a senior self-driving vehicle engineer from...
Toyota ploughs $1bn into ride-hailer Grab, while Uber goes Lite
Toyota has agreed to buy a $1 billion stake in South East Asia’s Grab, in a deal that is thought to be the biggest...
Tesla to slash nine percent of workforce, slammed by insurers
Electric car maker Tesla has announced that it is cutting nine percent of its workforce, in what founder and CEO Elon Musk has described...
Blockchain could enable new peer-to-peer transport network: report
Blockchain could underpin a future integrated transport system – without the need for large, costly, centralised control mechanisms, according to a new UK research...
Tesla to begin self-driving capability rollout in August
Electric car maker Tesla has announced that it will begin rolling out full-self driving abilities to its vehicles in August.
Tesla V9 will include updates...
Maritime IoT adoption higher than other sectors, says Inmarsat
Satellite communications company Inmarsat has commissioned research into Internet of Things (IoT) adoption in the maritime sector, among several others. According to its initial...