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British Tesla Model S owners in the dark after Autopilot suffers fatal crash in US

British Tesla Model S owners in the dark after Autopilot...

British owners of Tesla electric cars are waiting to hear whether they can safely use them after an American driver was killed while using the Autopilot...
Published 01 July 2016
Me and My Motor: Daniel Brühl on playing Lauda and a naked dash down the autobahn

Me and My Motor: Daniel Brühl on playing Lauda and...

Daniel Brühl grew up playing with model Ferraris and hoped one day to take one for a test drive.
Published 31 May 2016
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2016 Mercedes E-class: is this the most advanced car...

Mercedes says that a host of electronic driver aids will make the 2016 E-class the company’s most advanced model when it goes on sale in the summer.
Published 04 January 2016
British Tesla Model S owners in the dark after Autopilot suffers fatal crash in US

Switch to Autopilot: at the wheel of the self-driving...

It's mid-morning on the M4 and I am cruising along at 65mph. It’s a journey I’ve done hundreds of times but today there is something very different...
Published 02 November 2015
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Self-driving Nissan IDS concept will learn your road...

NISSAN HAS unveiled an autonomous concept car at this week's Tokyo show that can learn your driving style and copy it when driving itself
Published 28 October 2015
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Volvo: ‘We’ll accept liability for driverless car...

Volvo has given a boost to the development of self-driving cars by becoming the first manufacturer
Published 12 October 2015
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Jaguar Land Rover’s cars can read your mind and be...

Once the stuff of science fiction, technology that allows a car to read a driver’s mind could be coming to a showroom near you...
Published 17 June 2015
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Interview: Seat cars design chief on creases, tension...

When you’re the youngest child in a large family, it’s easy to go unnoticed. Seat knows the feeling
Published 24 April 2015
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News: VW unveils new self-parking system

Forget self-driving cars thundering down the outside lane. Tomorrow’s robot cars are more likely to be seen crawling forlornly through car parks...
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
BMW i3 parks itself at the touch of a smartwatch

News: BMW i3 parks itself at the touch of a smartwatch

It sounds like a scene from a James Bond blockbuster: BMW has revealed an i3 car that can drive itself around a multi-storey car park and park itself...
Published 17 December 2014
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News: UK to allow driverless cars on public roads from...

Like it or not, the steady cruise towards driverless cars is looking increasingly inevitable after the UK government today set out its plans to follow...
Published 30 July 2014