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Driverless cars set to be tested in four English cities
BBC News Technology Blog ^ | December 3, 2014

Posted on 12/04/2014 7:51:22 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Milton Keynes is set to begin tests of the Lutz self-driving pods next year.

The four English locations picked to test driverless cars have been named.

Greenwich, in south-east London, and Bristol will each host a project of their own, while Coventry and Milton Keynes will share a third.

The decision was announced by the quango Innovate UK, after George Osborne's Autumn Statement.

The chancellor also announced an additional £9m in funding for the work, adding to the £10m that had been announced in July.

The businesses involved will add further funds.

Bristol will host the Venturer consortium, which aims to investigate whether driverless cars can reduce congestion and make roads safer.

Its members include the insurance group Axa, and much of its focus will be on the public's reaction to the tech as well as the legal and insurance implications of its introduction.

Greenwich is set to run the Gateway scheme. This will be led by the Transport Research Laboratory consultancy and also involves General Motors, and the AA and RAC motoring associations. It plans to carry out tests of automated passenger shuttle vehicles as well as autonomous valet parking for adapted cars....

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Local News; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: automobiles; automotive; autonomy; driverlesscars

1 posted on 12/04/2014 7:51:22 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; All
Looks like a motorized Trashcan..
probably will be mistaken for one on the streets.

2 posted on 12/04/2014 7:54:18 AM PST by skinkinthegrass ("Bathhouse" E'Bola/0'Boehmer/0'McConnell; all STINK and their best friends are flies. d8^)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Lucas navigational computers? Terrifying.


3 posted on 12/04/2014 7:54:26 AM PST by CrazyIvan (I lost my phased plasma rifle in a tragic hovercraft accident.)
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To: skinkinthegrass

Go to the link and look at the other one.


4 posted on 12/04/2014 7:58:39 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; All
Go to the link and look at the other one.

It's a bread box..or a trolley...

5 posted on 12/04/2014 8:04:54 AM PST by skinkinthegrass ("Bathhouse" E'Bola/0'Boehmer/0'McConnell; all STINK and their best friends are flies. d8^)
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“Bristol will host the Venturer consortium, which aims to investigate whether driverless cars can reduce congestion and make roads safer.”

Oh, DRAT! We’re out of milk. Honey, quick, run over to the store and get milk for dinner time.

I’m watching TV. Send the driverless car to get the milk. Just phone the store and tell them to put the milk in the car. Why the heck do you think I bought a driverless car?


6 posted on 12/04/2014 8:16:44 AM PST by kitkat
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I smell a really funny episode of Top Gear coming...


7 posted on 12/04/2014 8:17:10 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

He he - can’t wait!


8 posted on 12/04/2014 8:20:00 AM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

yep.. good little sheep.. that’s what the left wants.. good little sheep...

no decisions can be made on your own..

all decisions from the state, even a turn of your steering wheel.

good little sheepies..


9 posted on 12/04/2014 8:37:19 AM PST by Chuzzlewit
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Trusting the British with anything automotive is like asking Larry, Moe and Curly to perform brain surgery. This can’t end well.


10 posted on 12/04/2014 8:45:40 AM PST by Arkansas Toothpick
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Got to be a rough ride with those Pentagonal tires.


11 posted on 12/04/2014 8:48:02 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Chuzzlewit
It's inevitable. Eventually all cars will be networked and driverless due to countless transportation benefits. We can easily double or triple ground transportation efficiency with automation. The amount of efficiency/speed/safety lost to driver and parking issues is staggering. It would be like high-speed trains with no track and the door-to-door independence of cars. Basically you would plug in a destination and your car perfectly drives you there at 150+ mph, drops you off at the door and goes to refuel/park on its own. When you leave, you push a button and the car picks you up.

Of course a corrupt government owned by a greedy elite will use it for any benefit as well.

12 posted on 12/04/2014 9:05:06 AM PST by varyouga
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

One word - Hastings.


13 posted on 12/04/2014 9:48:11 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Didn’t we see something like this in that old “Prisoner” series ;?


14 posted on 12/04/2014 9:58:15 AM PST by mikrofon (Xmas BUMP)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Can driverless car bombs be far behind?


15 posted on 12/04/2014 5:22:42 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______________________Celebrate the Polls, Ignore the Trolls)
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