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Self-driving commercial vehicles: are they right around the corner? Autonomous driving of commercial vehicles has been a subject of debate for years, but the idea now seems to be becoming reality with manufacturers and operators beginning to test the technology…

SHIFT, a collaboration between Oxbotica, Imperial College London and TfL, has published its Autonomous Vehicle Deployment Report. It identifies the potential impact of rolling out autonomous vehicle services and the challenges facing fleet operators in the UK, such as coping…

A new £1 million project has been launched to ensure the nation’s motorways can accommodate connected and autonomous vehicles. The new project, a partnership involving Loughborough University and Highways England, will get underway immediately and is a crucial step towards…

Netherlands bus operator Connexxion – part of Transdev – is going mirrorless on its new fleet of electric buses. The company has ordered 156 new buses from Ebusco and specified all with a camera-based system rather than normal wing mirrors.…

This week Mercedes-Benz has been showing off two self-driving Arocs as they successfully carry out automated snow removal operations in Germany. The result of a joint project with Lab1886 – the innovation unit for new business models within Mercedes-Benz AG…

Hyundai CRADLE, the Korean manufacturer’s corporate venturing and open innovation business, has announced its investment is a US-based intelligent technology company in a move that will accelerate the development of autonomous driving system. Netradyne, which specialises in fleet safety management…

Parcel giant UPS has purchased a stake in autonomous driving company TuSimple, strengthening a relationship that has already seen the introduction of autonomous truck deliveries in Arizona. The two companies have been working together for some time on an extensive…

The Volvo Group has signed an agreement with NVIDIA to jointly develop the decision-making system for autonomous commercial vehicles and machines. Utilising NVIDIA’s end-to-end artificial intelligence (AI) platform for training, simulation and in-vehicle computing, the resulting system is designed to…