Autonomous cars have come a huge way since 2016 when Uber launched a pilot programme for self-driving cars and began to improve hardware in order to allow for fully autonomous vehicles. 2017 was the year of improving and experimenting with driverless cars. Companies such as Ford, Tesla and Google have already been releasing driverless cars, [...]

Autonomous cars still have a long way to come in the industry, however with the governments help they’re on the right track to progressing. The governments help and funding will help towards educating those of the benefits of autonomous vehicles as well as persuading companies as to why autonomous cars will benefit and improve the [...]

They’re unsafe A misconception often made, which scares people about driverless cars is the safety aspect. The ideology that passengers should be able to take control at any point during the journey in case of an accident in order to ensure safety. Driverless cars however have 4 levels of autonomy which ranges dependant on what type of autonomous [...]

The second half of the day was a choice between Economy & Environment. I chose environment as I was curious of some of the solutions to help fuel emissions and reducing our carbon footprint in research stages that may soon hit our cities. Paul Goodman from Newcastle University pitched the’ Newcastle C-ITS Smart Corridor’ project, [...]

As autonomous vehicles come as a revolutionised method of travel, a peak in the industry comes with the success of this highly wrought evolution. Prominent companies, such as Intel, have made predictions of a $7 trillion a year industry by 2050. (Tovey, 2017) Due to the fact they are still perceived as a significant advancement [...]

Photo credit: Clagmaster “Everything that can be invented has been invented.” This iconic utterance was coined by Charles H. Duell, Commissioner of the US Patent office in 1899, (Crouch, D, 2011). [7] It would be painfully interesting to see the internet react to this exact statement if said in the digital age we live in [...]

Photo Credit: metrogogo – Flickr The last 20 years has seen the West Midlands go to great lengths to offer a light transport route for its urban population, none more so than the opening in 1999 of the Midland Metro tram.  This travel option which is deemed as an environmentally friendly option, runs mainly along […]