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UK Transport Minister Mark Harper said that self-driving cars could be on the country’s roads by 2026, reports Reuters. According to Harper, cars with full autonomous driving technology are not currently allowed on British roads, but a bill on automated vehicles is currently under consideration in Parliament. This means that by the end of 2024, […]
Oshkosh Defense received a contract for the production and delivery of the Remotely Operated Ground Unit for Expeditionary Fires (ROGUE-Fires) unmanned platform. The customer is the US Navy. The military service allocated $39.5 million to the American company. The funds will be used to create an additional batch of ROGUE-Fires ground-based unmanned platforms and sets […]
The founders of the former self-driving car division of Ford Motor Co. and Volkswagen AG are launching a new autonomous cargo transportation startup with the support of Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp. for more than $1 billion. Bloomberg reports. The new firm, called Stack AV, is headed by Brian Saleski, Pete Rander, and Brett Browning, who […]
A few days after Cruise received a permit to operate robotaxis around the clock in San Francisco, one of its vehicles got stuck in wet cement, SFGate reports. Paul Harvey, a San Francisco resident who lives in the area, told SFGATE that he saw a car stuck at a construction site on Golden Gate Avenue […]
On August 11, around 23:00, ten unmanned Cruise cars paralyzed traffic in the central part of San Francisco. The incident occurred just after the California authorities allowed the company to expand the use of robot cars in the city. Traffic was stopped for at least 15 minutes. According to the company, the failure occurred due […]