Tag: Transportation
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...
Volkswagen, NVIDIA, Bosch launch Networking for Autonomous Vehicles (NAV) Alliance
Leading automotive manufacturers and technology providers have joined forces to create the Networking for Autonomous Vehicle (NAV) Alliance.
Aquantia, Bosch, Continental, NVIDIA, and the Volkswagen...
10 steps to a successful business case for IoT
In this must-read guide to building a business case for IoT programmes, Andrew Hobbs reveals how best to identify and act on digital innovation...
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...
Survey reveals damaged public perception of autonomous cars
A survey of 2,000 people from the UK, by enterprise information management company OpenText, reveals falling public support for autonomous driving technology.
The survey focused...
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...
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...
IoM 2018: How Laing O’Rourke is using digital twins to build...
Andrew Hobbs reports exclusively from our Internet of Manufacturing conference in London, on how Dr Graham Herries, director of Digital Technologies at construction giant...
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...
UK government offers £30m new funding for driverless car projects
The Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV), a government initiative with Innovate UK and Meridian Mobility, has put up £30 million in new...