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News: Self-driving Audi A7 takes 550-mile trip from Silicon Valley to Las Vegas

News: Self-driving Audi A7 takes 550-mile trip from...

The ultimate road trip for many motorists would be coast to coast across America in a Mustang with the hood down. For the engineers at Audi, however...
Published 05 January 2015
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News: Google’s driverless car to hit public roads...

Driverless cars took a step closer to reality as Google unveiled the “production version” of its autonomous machine...
Published 29 December 2014
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Test your knowledge: At what circuit did Driving catch...

Before Google made a name for itself as a leader in self-driving car technology, and before Audi achieved a 149mph machine-driven lap of the Hockenheimring...
Published 20 December 2014
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News: British cities to begin driverless vehicle trials...

Bristol, Coventry, Milton Keynes and Greenwich in southeast London have been named as the locations for Britain’s first driverless car trials, backed...
Published 08 December 2014
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Man vs machine: we race the Audi RS 7 driverless car...

Audi has built one of the world's fastest driverless cars, an RS 7 that can tackle a racetrack at up to 149mph without missing a gear or a bend, but...
Published 03 November 2014
Video: Audi RS 7 laps Hockenheim at up to 149mph – without a driver (updated)

Video: Audi RS 7 laps Hockenheim at up to 149mph –...

While Google’s self-driving car creeps around the streets of Mountain View, California, feeling its way carefully into the future, an Audi RS 7...
Published 14 October 2014
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News: Stained-glass car has a bed but no steering wheel

It's one car unlikely to impress the crash testers at EuroNCAP. A designer has created a car from stained glass windows that has a bed, rather than...
Published 15 September 2014
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News: Google allows its driverless cars to break the...

So, who would get the speeding ticket: the driverless car or its occupant?
Published 22 August 2014
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News: Driverless cars to be tested in Britain. Scapegoats...

Tests of driverless cars will begin on UK roads next year but the motor industry has let slip a key condition: they will still need drivers...
Published 05 August 2014
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News: UK to allow driverless cars on public roads from...

Like it or not, the steady cruise towards driverless cars is looking increasingly inevitable after the UK government today set out its plans to follow...
Published 30 July 2014
Google begins production of driverless car fleet (video)

Google begins production of driverless cars (vid)

Internet giant Google is turning car maker as it prepares to manufacture 100 self-driving vehicles in its continuing development of autonomous...
Published 28 May 2014
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CES 2014: World’s first driverless vehicle is just...

FIFTY YEARS since it was first predicted, a driverless vehicle has gone on sale that can guide itself harmlessly through crowds of people.
Published 07 January 2014