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15th September 2023

Level 3 Handover Still Unsolved Challenge

The road to fully autonomous cars is littered with obstacles. The unleashing of Level 4 robo-taxis in San Francisco caused a bit of chaos and prompted local authorities to...

By Siegfried Mortkowitz

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30th August 2023

The Real Prospects of L4 Driverless Tech

The news about Level 4 autonomy has been mixed. In May, Waymo announced that it was doubling its robo-taxi service area in Phoenix to 180 square miles, with the...

By Siegfried Mortkowitz

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22nd August 2023

California Forces GM’s Cruise to Halve its ‘Frisco Robo-Taxi Fleet

Just a week after California’s regulators gave the green light to General Motors’ Cruise to run commercial robo-taxi services in San Francisco, another state body has told the company...

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14th August 2023

Green-Light for Robo-Taxi Services in San Francisco

Despite hearing six hours of objections from San Francisco residents associations, police and fire authorities, the US State of California has given the go ahead for commercial robo-taxi services...

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28th July 2023

Waymo to Focus on Robo-Taxi Tech instead of Trucking

Waymo has decided to back away from trucking autonomous technology and focus most of its attention on future robo-taxi services. This week it announced its refocus away from heavy...

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21st July 2023

Chinese AV Tech could Pose Spying Risk, US Warns

Data collection potential of Chinese vehicles fitted with automated driving technology could pose spying risks for western societies. That’s the warning from the US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg who...

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26th May 2023

Autonomous Tech Stalled Through Lack of Innovation

Autonomous cars were expected to be the next big thing in mobility but, after endless hype for their potential and broken promises of imminent deployment, we don’t seem to...

By Louis Bedigian

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17th March 2023

Limitations and Benefits of Big Tech Business Models in Automotive

Big Tech is influencing many areas of industry and society today. There is no doubt about it. They include companies such as Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet (Google). It’s...

By Graham Jarvis

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13th March 2023

Weekly Brief: Start-Ups Tremble as Tech Supporting Bank Goes Pop!

The sudden collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) roiled global markets and sent shock waves rippling through the tech start-up community, with potentially dire consequences for those in the...

Commentary By Andrew Tolve

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13th January 2023

Connected Autonomous Vehicles will Evolve the Digital Economy

With a growing data influx from connected and autonomous vehicles, automakers their partners and third-party organisations are  looking to develop connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs) as a key platform for...

By Graham Jarvis

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2nd January 2023

Weekly Brief: Exciting Year Ahead for EV and AV Technologies

New Year’s resolutions rarely last more than a week or two. New Year’s predictions are equally unreliable. Give it a few months and what seemed certain at the outset...

Commentary By Andrew Tolve

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19th December 2022

Weekly Brief: Auto Tech Start-Ups Feel the Chill of Economic Downturn

LiDAR maker Quanergy filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy just 10 months after going public via a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) called Citic Capital Acquisition Corp. Quanergy specializes in...

Commentary By Andrew Tolve

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