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News: British driverless car begins 3,500-mile trek

A British self-driving car is trying to beat Google on its home turf, with the first autonomous coast-to-coast trip across America
Published 30 March 2015
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News: Testing of driverless cars to begin in Britain...

London, Bristol, Milton Keynes and Coventry will soon have driverless cars on their roads, after the government announced a £19m grant to kick-start...
Published 11 February 2015
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News: Speed limiters may be made compulsory for new...

Devices that stop cars being driven above the speed limit could become compulsory on new vehicles, along with “black box” accident data recorders.
Published 27 January 2015
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Video: Jaguar Land Rover's Bike Sense system warns...

Every year 19,000 cyclists are killed or injured on British roads, according to the accident prevention charity Rospa. Car companies are aiming to...
Published 20 January 2015
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Drivers warned to stick to 70mph as motorway speed...

Until now breaches of the national speed limit have been largely ignored. But smart technology is changing that — and the first tickets have already...
Published 12 January 2015
News: Self-driving Audi A7 takes 550-mile trip from Silicon Valley to Las Vegas

News: Self-driving Audi A7 takes 550-mile trip from...

The ultimate road trip for many motorists would be coast to coast across America in a Mustang with the hood down. For the engineers at Audi, however...
Published 05 January 2015
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News: Porsche unveils smartwatch face app

Not all of us have the chance to get behind the wheel of a Porsche Cayman GTS or 911 GT3 RS, but a new, free digital watch face can give smartwatch...
Published 02 January 2015
Six real flying cars

Forget Back to the Future: here are six real flying...

Welcome to 2015, a year in which we pay for goods and services by thumbprint identification, video-call the office and . . . fly cars, if the Back...
Published 02 January 2015
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News: Google’s driverless car to hit public roads...

Driverless cars took a step closer to reality as Google unveiled the “production version” of its autonomous machine...
Published 29 December 2014
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Test your knowledge: At what circuit did Driving catch...

Before Google made a name for itself as a leader in self-driving car technology, and before Audi achieved a 149mph machine-driven lap of the Hockenheimring...
Published 20 December 2014
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News: Elderly couple 'close to death' after 13 hours...

An elderly couple are reported to have come “close to suffocation” after believing they had become trapped in their new Mazda3 hatchback without...
Published 19 December 2014
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News: British cities to begin driverless vehicle trials...

Bristol, Coventry, Milton Keynes and Greenwich in southeast London have been named as the locations for Britain’s first driverless car trials, backed...
Published 08 December 2014