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GUEST OPINION:  Licence Plate Recognition (LPR) technology is a widely adopted solution for automatic vehicle identification across a variety of public and private sectors. This system uses optical character recognition (OCR) to read and interpret vehicle registration plates from images or video footage captured by cameras, providing valuable insights and automating several processes.

WATER RESOURCES:   Yarra Valley Water has announced plans to expand the number of electric vehicle (EV) chargers by more than 50 per cent at its head office in Mitcham. The utility aims to increase the current 14 chargers to a total of 22, with the potential to expand further and accommodate up to 46 chargers in the future.

Tech analysis and market research firm TechInsights has estimated that BlackBerry QNX software is now embedded in over 235 million vehicles worldwide—a year-over-year increase of 20 million.

GUEST OPINION  In the next decade, the automotive industry is expected to pivot from primarily fossil-fuel powertrains to almost exclusively electric vehicles. It’s arguably the most rapid change since Ford began producing the Model T. And while the battery technology and affordability have significant ground to cover in that relatively short time frame, electric car HMI is also going to evolve to better suit a different automotive landscape.

Car subscription service Carbar has partnered with mobility services and connected vehicle solutions provider Intelematics, an RACV company, to develop a new app aimed at improving customer experience and allowing monitoring of a vehicle’s ‘health’.

Over 65,000 vehicles with deadly Takata airbags still remain on Australian roads with just four weeks until the compulsory recall deadline.

The number of cars with embedded connectivity will reach 200 million globally by 2025, rising from 110 million in 2020, with one of the main beneficiaries of the growth being mobile operators, according to new research.

The Australian arm of connected vehicle company Verizon Connect has launched its Field Service Dispatch solution for the Australian market, providing a solution it says makes it easy for dispatchers to efficiently schedule and communicate job information to technicians and customers throughout the day, in near-real-time.

Hyundai’s plan to invest US$35 billion on mobility tech will accelerate commercialisation of self-driving vehicles, according to analytics firm GlobalData.

BlackBerry and global automotive components manufacturer DENSO have announced the first integrated HMI (Human Machine Interface) digital cockpit system with BlackBerry QNX technology has shipped in the first vehicles by Japanese automotive manufacturer, Subaru.

Main Roads Western Australia says it has improved the quality of data management across its network, reduced paper usage, increased accuracy, and improved efficiency with the deployment of a tailored mobile in-vehicle solution from IT solutions vendor Motion and partner company Datanet Asia Pacific.

Cars have "virtually non-existent" levels of security and are at extreme levels of risk of being hacked, according to a Queensland professor.

Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk has never been short on ambition but his latest predictions seem particularly high reaching, telling investors his company will be producing up to 100,000 cars a year by 2015.

Electric car maker Tesla Motors has made the stunning move of opening up its patents, in a bid to encourage other vechicle makers to make the switch to electric.

Uber's ride-sharing functionality has been deemed illegal in the state of New South Wales, after the government declared it contravened the Passenger Transport Act.

Internode founder Simon Hackett has joined forces with Tesla entrepreneur Rudi Tuisk to create a new type of electric car, and get electric car adoption moving in Australia.

Cupertino-based tech giant Apple has unveiled its new iPhone-to-car service, CarPlay.

In-flight WiFi could soon be fast enough to stream movies and TV shows, after the UK announced some big changes to its satellite systems.

The future could be finally here, as a New Zealand jetpack prototype has been approved for manned test flights