A Short History of Mercedes-Benz Autonomous Driving Technology
3 Oct 2013, 08:30 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / A German University and Mercedes-Benz were at the forefront of autonomous driving technology since the 1980s, believe it or not
Meet Oxford University’s Self-Driving Truck, Built By Military Gear Maker BAE Systems
13 Feb 2015, 14:09 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / BAE Systems, a military gear maker from UK, has recently donated a self-driving truck they have spent five years and more than £1 million to develop
Autonomous Cars To Be Legally Tested in the UK
11 Feb 2015, 10:56 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The UK could be soon the Mecca of self-driving vehicle testing as the country's government sees nothing wrong with that as long as a human is behind the wheel
Driving Assists You Shouldn’t Trust With Your Life, for Now
30 Jan 2015, 17:04 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / You can now tick the boxes for a bucket load of driving assists for your new car, but this doesn't mean you can simply ignore the driving part.
Nissan Teams Up With NASA for Autonomous Car Development
13 Jan 2015, 14:15 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The future is all about boring autonomous vehicles and you can’t do anything to stop that. Even the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) believes in it and teamed up with Nissa...
Mercedes-Benz F 015 Concept Previews the Future at 2015 NAIAS · Live Photos
12 Jan 2015, 17:51 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Firstly unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show last week, the Mercedes-Benz F 015 Luxury in Motion concept also reached the 2015 North American International Auto Show here in Detroit. After s...
Ford Showcases 25 Global Mobility Experiments at Consumer Electronics Show · Video
7 Jan 2015, 13:10 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / This year’s CES was a full-on technological offensive from German automakers. The Mercedes-Benz F 015 concept and the BMW M4 Iconic Lights concept were the real showstoppers, but American auto...
Mercedes-Benz Unveils F 015 Mystery Concept at 2015 CES · Video
6 Jan 2015, 10:38 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The wait is over folks, Mercedes-Benz fully unveiled its dubious futuristic concept. It’s called the F 015 Luxury in Motion and according to chief Dieter Zetsche, it’s “a mobile li...
NVIDIA Unveils Future Cars’ Computing Platforms at 2015 CES
5 Jan 2015, 09:55 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Apple and Google may want to integrate phones with the car infotainment system but there are other computing companies that want a slice of the niche. Graphics processing units maker NVIDIA just unv...
Mercedes-Benz Teases its Mystery Concept, Could Be Autonomous
3 Jan 2015, 14:10 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Remember the heavily camouflaged UFO Mercedes-Benz was testing around at the end of last year? Well, that thing is real and the automaker will unveil it at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this J...
Unmanned Helicopter Completes First Missions on US Navy Destroyer
29 Dec 2014, 14:37 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Piloting a helicopter requires an immense mental effort along with perfect hands and feet coordination which could seem next to impossible trying it from a remote location other than the cockpit. Ad...
The Oatmeal Gives the Thumbs Up to the Google Self-Driving Car
24 Dec 2014, 16:35 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / After Matthew Inman received a cool $1 million for the Nikola Tesla Museum from Elon Musk, the guy most of us refer to as The Oatmeal tried something new. As most of his fans know, Inman is the happ...
Google Autonomous Car Gets One Step Closer to Production
23 Dec 2014, 09:41 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Yeah, it’s hard to believe and it fooled us too at first. The Google autonomous car prototype you see below is different from what you saw earlier. We know, the photo is taken in the same spot...
Why Google’s Fully Autonomous Car Won’t See Production Soon
23 Oct 2014, 17:19 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Continuously evolving driving aids like brake assistance, adaptive cruise control and blind spot monitoring could make you believe fully autonomous cars are just around the corner. And Google took t...
London to Have Driverless Trains in 2022
10 Oct 2014, 14:34 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / The future is all about lazy people waiting for artificially intelligent machines to do most of their hard jobs. Whether we’re talking "driverless" drones that chase our ever move a...
Google Could Lose the Drone Delivery Battle in Favor of DHL
25 Sep 2014, 17:38 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / The future is clearly a world where drones will bring small goods straight to your door, but the big question is who’s the first at it. While Google and Amazon have been testing their own UAVs...
Researchers Create Drone that Can Land on Moving Vehicle
21 Aug 2014, 08:45 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / We saw recently a drone that is able to glide like a plane towards its destination and land itself on a special platform it can detect. Well, how about a drone that can land on a moving vehicle now?...
Survey Says We Won’t Drive Anymore in 2023, Bummer!
17 Jul 2014, 09:49 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Not only cars are transforming into Playstations on wheels now, but in the near future, you also won’t need to operate them according to new study. In fact they won’t even have steering ...
Next Two Prototype Previews the Future of Self-Driving Renaults
9 Feb 2014, 21:46 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / While the development of new cars is a very private affair, the development of ones that drive themselves seems to be quite public. And why wouldn’t it, when it’s basically just a way fo...
Tesla to Develop Self-Driving Car Within Three Years
18 Sep 2013, 15:52 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Electric car automaker Tesla Motors is planning to develop a semi-autonomous vehicle within the next three years, company CEO Elon Musk revealed earlier this week. Speaking to the Financial Times...