Displaying items by tag: Selfdriving car

Intel research indicates self-driving vehicles will create a new US$7 trillion passenger economy by 2050.

A new report by the University of Sydney’s Business School, dubbed the Transport Opinion Survey, suggests self-driving cars won’t ease road congestion but might even increase it.

Ericsson and Zenuity are collaborating to develop the “Zenuity Connected Cloud” and accelerate the speed to market for new vehicle safety technologies, in-vehicle software, safety data and IoT with end-to-end security. 

Worldwide production of self-driving cars is forecast to reach 14.5 million in the next 10 years, up significantly from only a few thousands in 2020, according to the latest report from Juniper Research, which also forecasts that more than 22 million of the vehicles will be in use by consumers in 2025.

As part of its efforts to foster the self-driving car industry, Nvidia is backing the Roborace series that will run as part of the 2016/17 Formula E season.

After numerous prototypes to test different systems, Google has released its first ‘complete prototype for fully autonomous driving’ - and it wants partners.

Self-drive cars may be the future, but that doesn’t mean the death of grid-lock or the general drag of slow city traffic.  Why do we even fork out for high performance vehicles when much of the time is spent travelling slower than a senior citizen on a mobility scooter?