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Ford Engineers Fall Asleep While Monitoring Self-Driving Cars

Ford engineers have been falling asleep during test drives of ‘Level 3’ self-driving cars. As the U.S. automaker has been developing autonomous cars, a number of Ford engineers has started noticing a problem during the tests. They have been falling asleep … Continue reading

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The Driverless MegaDrone Coming Soon to Dubai

A giant quadcopter big enough to carry a passenger will be flying people around Dubai in July. The announcement was made by Mattar al-Tayer, the head of Dubai’s Roads & Transportation Agency at the World Government Summit last week. This human-size drone, … Continue reading

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Amazon’s New Grocery Store Comes Without Lines or Cashiers

Amazon Go is a new type of retail store that comes with no cashiers or check out lines. Two years ago, it was rumored that Seattle-based Amazon filed a patent for a grocery store will let you pick items off … Continue reading

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BMW Plans to Bring 40 Self-Driving Cars to US and European Roads

BMW will deploy a fleet of 40 autonomous cars for tests in the US and Europe by the end of 2017. BMW made the announcement together with Intel and Modileye at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Wednesday. The … Continue reading

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“Smart Roads” Will Unlock Benefits From Self-Driving Cars

Are the so called “smart roads” the key to self-driving vehicles? In not so distant future, the roads will communicate directly with vehicles and will help them to move as quickly and safely as possible. According to some transit planners, … Continue reading

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Apple Admits Plans for Self-Driving Cars

Apple has confirmed for the first time that it is working on technology to develop self-driving cars. The Cupertino-based tech giant has been rumored to be interested in the self-driving car market for the past two years and it has … Continue reading

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Another Electric Car Tries to Challenge Tesla

The Danish designer Henrik Fisker officially unveiled his new all-electric luxury seadan, dubbed EMotion, after releasing a few teasers over the past few days. Previously, Fisker worked as a design director at Aston Martin. Than he became famous with Fisker Automotive, which … Continue reading

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Airbus Wants to Make a Flying Taxi Fleet

A team of the European aerospace giant Airbus is currently working on the development of a new pilotless passenger aircraft, called CityAirbus. The concept has been developed by A3 (pronounced “A-cubed”) under the project that is dubbed Vahana. A3 is … Continue reading

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Human Drivers Soon Banned From The Roads

A proposal would ban human drivers from the lanes specially designated for autonomous cars. In a proposal revealed a few days ago, advocates for autonomous vehicles call for driver-free zones in congested city centers. The first car-pool lane banned for … Continue reading

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Tesla Autopilot Saves a Man’s Life

A Model X drives owner to hospital and saves his life. Joshua Neally, a 37-year-old attorney in Springfield, Missouri claims his Tesla Model X helped saved his life by taking him to the hospital during a life-threatening emergency. The incident … Continue reading

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