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There you are, cruising down the motorway, listening to some tunes and enjoying the view as your autonomous car zips and swerves through traffic. Then the fun ends and it becomes time take over the wheel. How smooth is that transition going to be?Twenty-two drivers put that question to a test—on a track, not a motorway—to find out.

The latest information regarding the future of Network Installation and Maintenance will be presented to engineers by Anritsu in a UK and Ireland roadshow. The UK events will take place in Doncaster and Warwick on January 17 and 19, while Dublin Aviva Stadium will host the Ireland event on January 25.

Renesas Electronics and TTTech Computertechnik AG (TTTech) have announced that they have developed a Highly Automated Driving Platform (HADP).The new HADP is a prototype Electronic Control Unit (ECU) for mass production vehicles with integrated software and tools, which demonstrates how to use Renesas and TTTech technologies combined in a true automotive environment for autonomous driving.

The annual 'IBM 5 in 5' has been unveiled by IBM – a list of innovations with the potential to change the way people work, live, and interact during the next five years.In 1609, Galileo invented the telescope and saw our cosmos in an entirely new way. He proved the theory that Earth and other planets in our solar system revolve around the Sun, which until then was impossible to observe.

Many new ideas are being shown off this week at CES, including Toyota’s vision for futuristic cars.Concept-i is designed to include artificial intelligence which is able to gain information about the driver, to a level never seen before, and eventually ‘building a relationship’ with the driver.

With some 2.69 million cars registered in 2016, the number of automotive sales in the UK has reached a record high. Creative think tank for the automotive industry, Rinspeed, is challenging the notion of the ‘urban jungle’ – where SUVs have become the norm for many individuals – through the introduction of its concept autonomous vehicle ‘Oasis’ at CES 2017.

Traffic is bad news for the economy, as well as being a public health hazard.Transportation studies put the annual cost of congestion at $160bn, which includes 7 billion hours of time lost to sitting in traffic and an extra 3 billion gallons of fuel burned.

The proliferation of cameras in automobiles to support Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and autonomous vehicles is driving the need for ever-smaller, low-cost cameras, asDave Lewis, Technical Marketing Manager for FPD-Link ADAS SerDes, Texas Instruments, writes.

Every year the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is abuzz with all the newest technologies aimed at exciting and engaging the consumer.This this includes the latest cars and automotive technology, and there is now a strong demand for our Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) in the automotive market.

The development of connection control technology for LTE and WiFi to boost communication speed in areas with WiFi has been announced by Fujitsu Laboratories.