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Alphabet’s Car Company Waymo Sues Uber Over Self-Driving Secrets

Alphabet’s rivalry with Uber got even more heated up as the internet giant sued the ride-hailing company for allegedly stealing self-driving cars secrets. According to a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco on Thursday, a former Google employee stole … Continue reading

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Ford Engineers Fall Asleep While Monitoring Self-Driving Cars

Ford engineers have been falling asleep during test drives of ‘Level 3’ self-driving cars. As the U.S. automaker has been developing autonomous cars, a number of Ford engineers has started noticing a problem during the tests. They have been falling asleep … Continue reading

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The Driverless MegaDrone Coming Soon to Dubai

A giant quadcopter big enough to carry a passenger will be flying people around Dubai in July. The announcement was made by Mattar al-Tayer, the head of Dubai’s Roads & Transportation Agency at the World Government Summit last week. This human-size drone, … Continue reading

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Autonomous Flying Car to be Tested by End of 2017, Says Airbus

Airbus is planning to test autonomous flying car by the end of the year- a move that could be a big step towards easing congestion on inner-city roads. Cities are growing and traffic will get worse. As a way of … Continue reading

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Volkswagen I.D. Buzz Concept Looks Groovy

Volkswagen took the wraps off its new I.D. Buzz concept microbus last Sunday at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Touted as “a Microbus for a new era,” the zero-emission vehicle represents the company’s all-electric ambitions.The German automaker’s … Continue reading

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BMW Plans to Bring 40 Self-Driving Cars to US and European Roads

BMW will deploy a fleet of 40 autonomous cars for tests in the US and Europe by the end of 2017. BMW made the announcement together with Intel and Modileye at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Wednesday. The … Continue reading

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Apple Admits Plans for Self-Driving Cars

Apple has confirmed for the first time that it is working on technology to develop self-driving cars. The Cupertino-based tech giant has been rumored to be interested in the self-driving car market for the past two years and it has … Continue reading

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Four Major Cities to Ban Diesel Cars by 2025

The mayors of four global cities, Mexico City, Paris, Madrid and Athens, have pledged to take serious measures to deal with growing air quality issues and ban diesel vehicles from their cities within the next decade. The mayors announced their … Continue reading

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Another Electric Car Tries to Challenge Tesla

The Danish designer Henrik Fisker officially unveiled his new all-electric luxury seadan, dubbed EMotion, after releasing a few teasers over the past few days. Previously, Fisker worked as a design director at Aston Martin. Than he became famous with Fisker Automotive, which … Continue reading

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Airbus Wants to Make a Flying Taxi Fleet

A team of the European aerospace giant Airbus is currently working on the development of a new pilotless passenger aircraft, called CityAirbus. The concept has been developed by A3 (pronounced “A-cubed”) under the project that is dubbed Vahana. A3 is … Continue reading

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