Tag Archives: DRIVERLESS

Driverless cars are on course to generate €17 trillion for the European economy by 2050, according to new research. Fully ‘autonomous vehicles’ are predicted to be providing fully ‘hands-off’ door-to-door transport on the road within the decade. Nissan Europe polled 6,000 people in UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Norway …

Ford plans to mass-produce a fully autonomous self-driving car without a steering wheel by 2021. Company president Mark Fields outlined the bold plan at an event in Palo Alto, California. Ford said it would double its investment in its research centre in the city, as well as collaborating with four …

Less than a third of UK motorists would choose a driverless car, according to a new survey. Most British motorists prefer to keep their current car, rather than have a self-driving car – with safety being the main reason for concern. With car manufacturers and companies like Google currently hard …

Land Rover has created a car that can be controlled by a driver outside using a smartphone. It may sound like something out of a James Bond movie, but that’s exactly what the boffins at Land Rover have done. It’s just one of the prototype technologies that its UK-based research …

This week the cars were the stars at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas – here are a few picture highlights… Mercedes-Benz F 015 Luxury in Motion – futurist, beautiful and driverless.. The VW e-Golf does what it says on the tin, except that in Volkswagen’s system, power lifts below …

World premiere for futuristic Mercedes-Benz F 015 Luxury in Motion driverless concept car at Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Capable of being powered by hydrogen fuel cells, Mercedes says the stunner is a research vehicle and vision of the future of autonomous driving. Its body structure is extremely …

Audi RS7 laps Germany’s Hockenheim circuit in just over two minutes – with no-one behind the wheel. Watch the driverless Hockenheim lap! The RS7 Piloted Driving Concept used only computers and sensors to guide it as it took on the high-speed challenge which was a curtain-raiser to the German Touring …