Dubai World Challenge for Self-Driving Transport unveiled by RTA
The Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) in Dubai has opened the registration for the Dubai World Challenge for Self-Driving Transport through the website sdchallenge.com.
The Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) in Dubai has opened the registration for the Dubai World Challenge for Self-Driving Transport through the website sdchallenge.com.
After getting into the self-driving game a little late compared to several other mainstream carmakers, Honda plans to introduce cars with highly-automated driving capabilities in most driving situations by 2025. We tried out their latest autonomous prototypes during a trip to Honda’s R&D centre in Tochigi, Japan recently.
Project Titan was an ambitious car project that was proposed by the American tech-giant firm Apple a few years ago. The Titan was rumoured to debut by 2020 as the “ultimate mobile device”. And now, it’s back in the news to quash all the hype. Apple is now slowly backing away from the project, as signalled by a massive lay-off involving hundreds of employees.
The fatal accident which took the life of the 40-year-old driver in the United States is the first major accident that happened while a computer was at the wheel. The Tesla Model S which he drove was controlled by Tesla’s autonomous driving system, Autopilot, at the time of the accident, raising questions over the reliability of Autonomous driving systems.