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Driverless cars to be tested in four cities 04/12/2014 Autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles will be tested in Milton Keynes and Coventry after the cities won a £10 million competition to host a driverless cars trial.
£20m boost for driverless cars technology 01/02/2016 The government has announced £20 million worth of funding to develop the next generation of autonomous vehicles.
TRL launches new test environment for driverless vehicles 18/02/2016 TRL (Transport Research Laboratory) has announced the launch of UK Smart Mobility Living Lab @ Greenwich – a real-life environment where connected and automated vehicles (CAVs), services and processes can be safely developed, evaluated and integrated within the local community.
WDM highlighting how they "do miracles" around the world 04/04/2016 The Bristol-based survey company WDM is warning highways authorities that autonomous vehicles will only be able to properly function if road surfaces and marking are of a high enough standard.
Self-driving car can navigate through roadworks 13/07/2016 A fleet of more than 100 connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) will be trialled by Jaguar Land Rover on public roads over the next four years – including a system that is able to navigate through roadworks.
Driverless car on UK public roads for the first time 11/10/2016 The Transport Systems Catapult (TSC) in Milton Keynes has successfully tested its self-driving vehicles in public for the first time in the UK.
Greenwich seeks public's driverless car views 02/11/2016 The Royal Borough of Greenwich is asking its residents, businesses, commuters, students and visitors to share their views on driverless vehicles as part of a series of public engagement activities for the £8m GATEway research project to investigate the use, perception and acceptance of automated vehicles in the UK.
Transport spending in the budget 08/03/2017 Chancellor Philip Hammond has announced a major local funding boost to tackle congestion in his first Budget, with a £690m competitive fund for English councils to "get local networks moving".
Colas trials groundbreaking autonomous protection vehicle 18/08/2017 A partnership between Colas and two US companies is seeking to save roadworker lives with what is thought to be the world’s first Autonomous Impact Protection Vehicle (AIPV).
Volvo's Drive Me soft pedals towards 2021 driverless target 19/12/2017 Volvo appears to be applying the brakes to its Drive Me project to publicly test driverless cars but still aims to have a fully autonomous vehicle commercially available within four years.
Scotland 'should prepare for driverless vehicles' 09/04/2018 Scotland's Transport Minister Humza Yousaf has said the next phase of road upgrading in Scotland should include the capacity to cope with the introduction of
US driverless cars expert says Level 5 cars 'long way off' 09/05/2018 One of the leading researchers into driverless vehicle technology in the US has told SMART Highways that cars with no steering wheel that can 'go anywhere, anytime are a very long way off'.
Listen to the new Transport Network podcast 09/05/2018 The first of Transport Network’s new regular podcasts is now online, talking this week about driverless cars on both sides of the Atlantic and also looking ahead to next week’s Cold Comfort event.
The Stig talks driverless cars in this week’s Talking Transport 20/06/2018 You may not have heard him before, but you’ll probably have seen him – The Stig from Top Gear. Well one of those drivers from the Clarkson/May/Hammond era of the programme joins us on Talking Transport as Ben Collins discusses driverless cars.
'GATEway was just the beginning': groundbreaking AV project signs off 21/06/2018 The GATEway project to study how people react to automated vehicles has published the full research and findings from its three-year programme of trials, with suggestions for new areas of research for the future.
New INRIX platform aims to tackle 'very local' AV challenge 19/07/2018 INRIX has announced a new platform that will allow authorities to communicate traffic rules to connected and autonomous vehicles, which could in turn provide information about the condition of the highway.
FiveAI begins data gathering ahead of London passenger AV trial 14/08/2018 A UK company developing technology for driverless vehicles has started data gathering in two London boroughs as part of its plan to trial a shared driverless passenger service in London next year.
ITS summit aims to tackle the barriers to implementation 29/08/2018 High profile decision-makers from around the world will discuss the complex range of Intelligent Transport Solutions at the first ITS (UK) Summit this November.
'Virtual Eyes' analyse trust in driverless vehicles 28/08/2018 Jaguar Land Rover has fitted 'virtual eyes' to intelligent pods in an attempt to understand how humans will trust self-driving vehicles, as research suggests three-fifths of pedestrians worry about how safe it will be to cross the road in the future.
Autonomous pods coming to Edinburgh 25/10/2018 Delegates at CAV Scotland 2018 will be able to enjoy an autonomous driving experience in a colourful and distinctive AurriGo PodZero, designed to carry four

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