Before choosing your next car, check out the pros and cons of manual and automatic to make the best decision. A manual car has a gear system that you operate yourself by moving the gear stick and pressing down the clutch pedal. The majority of vehicles driven in the UK are manual. An automatic car changes […]

Today, we’re taking the next step in our journey with the introduction of our commercial self-driving service, Waymo One. #everystep https://t.co/Sg2a5wRVfM pic.twitter.com/kRZtA4gRda — Waymo (@Waymo) December 5, 2018 Waymo has introduced a small self-driving service in the Phoenix area after waiting for nearly a decade. Marking a significant milestone after working secretively with Google in […]

Today we talk about the on-going self-driving car competition across the whole country and where the UK is in the race. The US, China and Japan have been moving ahead swiftly in the race to put autonomous vehicles on public roads, but new trials in West London perhaps indicate the UK is not that far […]

Government announces £25m the Autonomous Vehicles Intelligent Mobility Fund People of London and Edinburgh will be the first in the UK to experience self-driving vehicles after three new public trials of autonomous buses and taxis secured a share of £25m funding from the government. Leading brands such as Jaguar Land Rover, Addison Lee and Stagecoach […]

Tech analysts are predicting that in less than 20 years we’ll all have stopped owning cars. A huge claim, but the argument of new and innovating technology is ready to revolutionise transportation for everyone. Self-driving electric vehicles that are organised into an Uber network, offering cheap transport that you’ll decide quickly you won’t need a […]

In the next 15 years, MP’s have claimed the sale of petrol and diesel vehicles should be banned in the UK. The current target was going to be 2040, but they’ve brought it back eight years due to the world’s pollution and environmental issues. Ministers were also told that they need to “get a grip” when it […]

Can’t ever find a parking space? Here’s the solution. Volkswagen’s car towers at Autostadt in Wolfsburg, Germany, are 60m tall parking towers of glass and galvanised steel. They house 800 cars and are connected to the Volkswagen factory by a 700m underground tunnel. In the vertical carparks, cars are lifted into position via mechanical arms […]

In the USA they are already making plans to rewrite their road safety rules in better preparation for driverless cars. There are talks of scarping the safety rules mandating steering wheels, pedals and mirrors. It is said that they could possibly be removed from the safety manuals and cars to help cut the cost of producing […]

Because of the evolution of self-driving cars becoming closer each day, the Department of Transport has started to change the definition of a ‘driver’. They state ” adapt the definitions of ‘driver’ and ‘operator’ to recognize that such terms do not refer exclusively to a human, but may, in fact, include an automated system.” Read […]

Will there still be crashes? Around 94% of US vehicular accidents involve human error and therefore are potentially avoidable. Driverless cars could make roads significantly safer. Will there be less congestion? Automated vehicles (AV’s) will enable a higher density of passengers per road mile thus making traffic move more efficiently. Will all cars be autonomous? Autonomous vehicles are […]