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Category: Self-driving vehicles
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The aim is to use driving and vehicle data to set insurance prices employing its established OnStar service. This is the automaker’s connected-car service, which is installed on all GM vehicles in North America. Customers who sign up, agree to permit their driving habits to be tracked remotely. Drivers who obey speeding limits or avoid…
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The Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic is expected to change the way people work, well into the future. While the focus is predominantly on office workers being able to continue their roles from home, there is also an opportunity to enable a wide variety of industries to take their project work back to their humble abodes. This…
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As vehicles become increasingly connected, different stakeholders are looking to benefit from the information that connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) provide. However, as TU-Automotive contributor Nathan Eddy says, the key challenge is to ensure that the data is being sent to its intended location without delay. Data from or to the vehicles can be hampered…
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There are a number of consortia being created to push the way for us all to see connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) on our roads. Nissan, for example, has joined ServCity to develop a blueprint to enable cities to introduce them into cities across the UK. Similar consortia have been created in the country, and…
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Yahoo Finance reports that “a new self-driving car algorithm developed by researchers at Germany’s Technical University of Munich (TUM) thrives on thinking about the worst thing that could happen at every moment and then figuring out how to get out of it without endangering or obstructing traffic.” Driverless start-up Cruise has developed an artificial intelligence…
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Korea Bizwire said in September 2020 that South Korea’s regulator: “The Financial Supervisory Service announced that the nation’s 12 non-life insurance companies will start selling new insurance products that can cover the risk related to accidents involving commercial self-driving cars from late this month.” Reports suggest that the country has established the legal foundation for…
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KPMG claims that autonomous vehicles are being held back by the need for infrastructure to support them. The consultancy and analyst firm’s Autonomous Vehicle Readiness index (AVRI) ranks the UK as the 9th most advanced connected and autonomous vehicle market in the world. The country is, nevertheless, within the top five countries for cyber-security. The…
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A report reveals that Sky-Go’s researchers had found 19 vulnerabilities in a Mercedes E-Class car. The findings raise the concern that the cyber-security for connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) is not being taken seriously enough. Jia Jen Low, writing for TechHQ in her 12th August 2020 article, Mercedes-Benz security bug — a sign of connected…
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Microchip maker Nvidia and car manufacturer Mercedes are planning to roll out software-defined autonomous vehicles by 2024. They claim that the vehicles will be able to receive over-the-air (OTA) software updates to ensure that they are able to benefit from the latest autonomous features. However, there has been talk about OTA updates for quite a…
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Yes, hybrid vehicles can charge themselves. However, by 2035 in the UK these will, like their gasoline and diesel alternatives, be phased out. Meanwhile, Sebastian Gray, assistant manager for Mobility 2030 at KPMG comments: “I think the term ‘self-charging’ can create some confusion. What is referred to by ‘self-charging hybrid’ is in fact a conventional…