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Pilotless passenger drones and driverless taxis as China pushes boundaries of how we travel | World News
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Have you ever dreamed of flying in an unmanned drone, from city to city? It sounds like the stuff of fantasy, but in China pilotless passenger drones are a reality. You can’t catch them like a taxi just yet. But a company called EHang is waiting for the government to approve a commercial licence to…
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‘World first’ driverless bus service in Scotland axed due to low passenger numbers | UK News
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A driverless bus service thought to be a world first has been cancelled due to a lack of passengers. Stagecoach has run a fleet of self-driving buses on a 14-mile route between Fife and Edinburgh since the launch of the CAVForth project in May last year. However, the service, which still requires two members of…
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Edinburgh: ‘World’s first’ driverless bus service doesn’t quite live up to the hype | UK News
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It looks like a bus, it sounds like a bus… it is a bus. However, this one is self-driving and believed to be the world’s first autonomous single-decker passenger service. Journalists were summoned to a unit near Edinburgh to board the nine-tonne vehicle for a test run ahead of the official launch with passengers on…
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Traffic lights ‘could be obsolete in 20 years’ after UK driverless cars trial | Science & Tech News
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Traffic lights could be made obsolete within 20 years, an engineer has claimed, after a landmark trial of driverless vehicles in the UK. The two-year trial saw two self-driving cars built by Nissan complete hundreds of laps round a 2.7-mile long route in Woolwich, southeast London. Believed to be the UK’s first trial of driverless…
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Asda and HVS to work on driverless hydrogen HGV in world first | Business News
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A British vehicle maker is part of a consortium that has been awarded £6.6m in government funding to make the world’s first self-driving, hydrogen-powered heavy goods vehicle for Asda to trial. Glasgow-based Hydrogen Vehicle Systems (HVS) is developing two prototype HGVs as part of a group which includes supermarket giant Asda. The third member of…