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Five fastest ever Goodwood Festival of Speed hill climb times

Top 5 fastest ever Goodwood hillclimb times

Many a car has set a hill climb time at Goodwood. Few, though, can hold a candle to these five blisteringly fast runs.
Published 27 June 2022
Jaguar Land Rover to open self-driving 'smart city hub' in Ireland

Law change to allow movies in self-driving cars

Proposed Highway Code changes will pave the way for self-driving cars on UK roads by 2025, including the ability to watch movie on the move.
Published 20 April 2022
Toyota creates and tests autonomous drift car to advance driver assistance systems

Watch Toyota's self-driving drift car

The Toyota Research Institute, a US-based R&D arm of the Japanese car-maker, has programmed a vehicle to autonomously drift around obstacles.
Published 03 February 2022
Trump pardons autonomous car engineer sentenced for stealing trade secrets

Trump pardoned ex-Google self-driving car engineer

Outgoing President Donald Trump last night pardoned Anthony Levandowski, an autonomous car engineer charged with stealing trade secrets.
Published 20 January 2021
Uber sells self-driving business to Silicon Valley startup

Uber sells self-driving business to start-up

Ride-hailing juggernaut Uber has sold its self-driving business to a small Silicon Valley rival.
Published 08 December 2020
Is brain training the cure to car sickness?

Is brain training the cure for car sickness?

Researchers from the University of Warwick think they’ve found the cure to motion sickness, a condition that a third of people suffer from.
Published 15 September 2020

Autonomous taxis make driverless debut in London

Self-driving taxis have hit the streets of London for the first time during a week-long trial in the capital.
Published 08 October 2019
Motor Awards 2019: The Times and Sunday Times cars of the year

Motor Awards 2019: The winners

We created shortlists of our favourite cars, you voted in your hundreds of thousands — now we can reveal The Sunday Times cars of the year 2019.
Published 02 October 2019
Volvo claims it's made the world's first fully autonomous production car

Volvo, Uber claim first fully autonomous car

Volvo says it's made the first fully self-driving production car — though it's not ready to go on sale just yet.
Published 14 June 2019

Teslas could have no steering wheels by 2021

Elon Musk has courted controversy yet again, by suggesting Tesla could build autonomous cars with no steering wheels within the next two years.
Published 24 April 2019
Could the garage workshop of the future look something like this?

Could garage of the future look like this?

According to industry experts, car repair centres in the UK will be "more akin to laboratories than workshops" by 2050.
Published 24 April 2019
“Advanced” autonomous car trials could start in the UK this year

Self-driving cars held back by potholes,poor 4G

Motorists in the UK could see self-driving cars on the road by the end of 2019, but poor 4G coverage and potholes are hampering progress.
Published 12 February 2019