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With its range of concierge services, Volvo Cars promisesthat you will never have to stop at a petrol station, go to a car wash or even take your car in for service ever again. These services will become an integrated part of the Volvo On Call mobile platform.Volvo is announcing the roll-out of a pilot programme in San Francisco.

Autonomous driving vehicles are on the road today. To name just a couple of examples, Volvo has already launchedautonomous driving trialson the streets of Gothenburg, close to its headquarters, and has announced plans to extend trials toLondonandChina. Google’s self‑driving cars, on the other hand, have amassed close to two million autonomous miles driven, according to the company’slatest report.

Greg Waite, CEO of InventionShare, announced during the LA Auto Show at the LA Convention Center that the injection of Circuit Seed’s, Sensory Seed multipurpose sensor systems integrated on a single chip combined into current automotive sensor applications can improve critical speed and accuracy to provide the world’s best automotive collision, detection and avoidance technologies for driver-assist and autonomous vehicles.

Volvo Buses is taking steps to reduce the 1.25 million annual road traffic deaths by unveiling a pedestrian and cyclist detection system. “Accidents involving buses and unprotected road-users seldom occur, but when they do the consequences may be very serious.

The world’s first ever fully autonomous truck to be tested in operations deep underground has been created by Volvo, and is now being tested in the Kristineberg Mine.This self-driving truck is part of a development project aimed at improving the transport flow and safety in the mine. It will cover a distance of 7km, reaching 1,320m underground in the narrow mine tunnels.

WABCO has successfully optimised production quality on its prototyping line with the S3088 SPI and S3088 ultra from Viscom. Viscom Quality Uplink manages the data networking for WABCO, which is known for its ABS systems.As part of an ongoing development partnership since 2014, WABCO has acquired a prototype line in stages at its Lindener Hafen location in Hanover, Germany.

The prime sponsor for The BLOODHOUND Project has been announced as Zhejiang Geely Holding Group (ZGH), who will also be Official Automotive Partner in a three year agreement.The leading Chinese automotive group will provide technical as well as financial support to the Project and promote its Inspirational Programme throughout Asia.

Four new eight wheeler rigid tipper trucks have been acquired by Kent-based Mark Luck Transport, bringing its fleet to 45 vehicles.As standard the company specifies all of its new vehicles with Edbro tipping gear. These vehicles are no different, each being equipped with lightweight CX combined ram and tank cylinders.

In January 1886, Karl Benz filed patent 37435 at the German Patent Office, which was subsequently granted in November. It was for a 954cc vehicle, called the Motorwagen, that was able to deliver less than one horsepower and operated with just one front wheel.

In January 1886, Karl Benz filed patent 37435 at the German Patent Office, which was subsequently granted in November. It was for a 954cc vehicle, called the Motorwagen, that was able to deliver less than one horsepower and operated with just one front wheel.