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Opinion: Self-driving cars still need a human touch

Opinion: Self-driving cars need a human touch

When is a self-driving car not a self-driving car? Most of the time, actually. When the cab-hailing firm Uber announced it was launching...
Published 04 November 2016
Driverless lorry makes late-night beer run

Driverless lorry makes late-night beer run

It was after midnight and the executive director of the Colorado Department of Transportation was at the back of a convoy escorting an...
Published 03 November 2016
Tesla says all cars it produces are now fully self-driving

Tesla: all our cars now capable of self-driving

While the rest of the world continues to grapple over self-driving car legislation and fairly important matters such as whose safety...
Published 20 October 2016
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Future bright for DeLorean after legal green light...

The DeLorean Motor Company is to build up to 300 of the gullwing sports cars that will for ever be associated with the Back to the Future film series.
Published 01 February 2016
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Stanford University creates driverless DeLorean that’ll...

It's October 21, 2015 (a.k.a. Back to the Future "Future Day") and the car of the moment is the DeLorean DMC-12 – you can’t move for stories centred...
Published 21 October 2015
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Driverless taxis tested in Arizona

Uber has struck a deal in America to test its driverless cars on public roads without backup drivers on board. It offers a glimpse of a future in...
Published 14 September 2015
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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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LCCS 2015: James May's most important cars in history

It’s a debate that has kept publicans in business for years: what are the best cars ever made? These are James May's picks at the London Classic...
Published 15 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
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News: Stained-glass car has a bed but no steering wheel

It's one car unlikely to impress the crash testers at EuroNCAP. A designer has created a car from stained glass windows that has a bed, rather than...
Published 15 September 2014
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Exclusive: Ford says fully autonomous cars may never...

It may have created the family car without a B-post and the boot release that works by waggling your foot, but Ford says a car that drives itself...
Published 25 July 2014
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News: Google’s self-drive car motors towards its...

Google claims its driverless car's software can now detect hundreds of distinct objects simultaneously
Published 30 April 2014