Tata is a global design and technology services company and a leader for the automotive electronics and software development, announced the licensing of its advanced autonomous vehicle middleware platform Automai. The Automai platform provides carmakers and Tier 1 automotive suppliers with a comprehensive and modular solution covering Perception, GNC and Drive-by-Wire systems, to quickly build, […]

Jaguar Land Rover is filling a patent for facial recognition based keyless entry, according to Car Throttle. The company fleets of the future could unlock their doors via facial recognition if the patent the company has filed will pass. According to the technical details of the patent, two cameras would be placed on each side […]

The Italian design company Icona announced its debut at the Geneva Motor Show, unveiling a worldwide premiere: the autonomous driving concept vehicle Icona Nucleus. According to Icona’s press release, the concept Nucleus represents the synthesis of futurism and human-centred mindset. It takes the Icona Neo Concept one step further by reconsidering the very way that […]

Volkswagen is adding a fourth car to its futuristic I.D. line up of concepts. Called the I.D. Vizzion, it is a long, low sedan with no steering wheel or pedals and it is meant to show how the company is thinking of a future where all routinely step into a fully electric autonomous car that […]

Audi has partnered with Italdesign and Airbus to develop a new flying car concept. The updated passenger drone project – Pop.Up Next – was revealed at the Geneva Motor Show and is based on the Pop.Up, an electric flying vehicle revealed at last year’s show, a partnership only between Italdesign and Airbus. Design-wise, it looks […]

The idea of adding noise-makers to quiet-cars didn’t exist until the first hybrid-electric cars hit the market in 2000, according to Green Car Reports. Within a few years, however, organisations representing the blind began to raise alarms that cars operating at low speeds solely on electric power couldn’t be heard by pedestrians who also couldn’t […]

German energy group E.ON said it had entered a strategic partnership with Nissan to explore business opportunities in the field of electric vehicle charging, storage solutions and vehicle-to-grid services, according to Reuters. The cooperation has already been started in Denmark and will be expanded to other European countries soon, said E.ON. E.ON and Nissan pool […]

It is formally called the Electric Production Car Series, but for the moment it may come to be known as the Tesla racing car, according to Green Car Reports. After being unveiled almost two years ago, it is now officially a legitimate racing series: FIA, the governing body for world motorsports, officially approved it. It […]

Consumers have little interest in connected cars, according to Rethink Research. It found that fewer than 16 million owners out of the 105 million plus cars that could buy services from a connected car have shown interest. And fewer than 16% have actually committed monthly cash to the provision of services. Typically, these spend between […]

Continental and NVidia are partnering to create artificial intelligence (AI) self-driving vehicles technology based on the NVidia Drive platform, with a planned market introduction in 2021 for level 3 features, according to Vehicle Electronics. The partnership aims to produce AI systems that scale form automated level 2 to full level 5 autonomous driving, where the […]