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While considered science fiction a decade earlier, semi-autonomous and autonomous vehicle technologies are evolving rapidly. The prospect of autonomous driving seemed to be impossible and futuristic. The idea of autonomous vehicles is not new and traces back to the times of Leonardo Da Vinci who first sketched a three-wheeled driverless cart in 1478. Tesla’s autopilot was introduced in 2015 with driver assistance systems, which marked the i...

Productivity statistics from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) have shown that the manufacturing sector improved its output per hour in the first quarter of this year.This contrasts with a slump in service sector productivity over the same period. The figures, which show a 0.2% improvement, do not spell an end to concern around productivity, which still lags behind other G7 nations.

The results of the second quarter of a year-long research study, conducted by international law firm Gowling WLG and economic research agency Explain the Market, reveal how investors view the performance of a range of different players in the autonomous vehicle (AV) market, providing for each firm the percentage of investors who judge that company as ranking in the top five for having the most investible Autonomous Vehicle technology.In the surve...

Despite commencing building in April last year, Faraday Future halted construction on its Nevada factory in October, and now work has been postponed indefinitely.

Fifty students from ETH Zurich and other Swiss universities want to revolutionise transport. For a race set up by Elon Musk, they have developed a zero emission capsule that could in future transport people and goods through a vacuum tube at almost the speed of sound.

Today’s productivity statistics from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) show that the manufacturing sector improved its output per hour in the first quarter of this year. This contrasts with a slump in service sector productivity over the same period. The figures, which show a 0.2 percent improvement, do not spell an end to concern around productivity, which still lags behind other G7 nations.

CWIEME hosted its first Global Awards at CWIEME Berlin 2017.These awards aimed to represent a benchmark of industry quality and excellence, and encourage design engineers, operational decision-makers and technical project leaders to celebrate their achievements and promote their work.

The new IDTechEx Research report 'Electric Buses 2018-2038'is about hybrid and pure electric buses, often in many new forms, powering up to be a massive $500bn market. By Dr Peter Harrop, Chairman, IDTechEx.

The biggest change in cars for one hundred years is now starting. It is driven by totally new requirements and capabilities. They will cause huge new businesses to appear but some giants currently making cars and their parts will spectacularly go bankrupt. Cities will ban private cars but encourage cars as autonomous taxis and rental vehicles. Already 65% of cars in China are bought by businesses. Electric car technology and forecasts 2017-2027 ...

BIOTRONIK has received CE approval for 3T full-body scans (FBS) with its latest range of MR conditional pacemaker systems. Patients implanted with single- and dual-chamber pacemakers from the Edora/Evity/Enitra series can now benefit from ultra-high field MRI scans without any restrictions on the scanned body area.BIOTRONIK’s ProMRI pacemaker portfolio was previously approved for 1.5T FBS. With 3T FBS compatibility, radiologists can offer p...