The Volkswagen brand handed over a total of 6.23 million vehicles to customers worldwide in 2017, making last year a record breaking success for the company. China, the largest single market, is the main driver of this positive development. More than 3 million vehicles were delivered there for the first time last year, an increase [...]

Continental, Ericsson, Nissan, NTT DOCOMO, OKI and Qualcomm Technologies have joined forces to host trials in Japan in 2018 to validate and demonstrate Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X) benefits. The objective is to validate and demonstrate the benefits of C-V2X using direct communication technology defined by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) in their Release 14 specifications. [...]

The state transport department of Odisha, India has decided to develop a web-based application to gather information regarding road accidents occurring across the state. According to the Time of India (TOI) The proposed application—road accident management information system (RAMIS)—will be integrated with a mobile App to enable people to alert the department about accidents and [...]

Guy Fraker, Insurance Thought Leadership’s (ITL) chief of innovation has predicted that 2018 will be the year that scaled deployment of autonomous vehicles begins. In an article from Paul Carroll, editor in chief at ITL, Guy suggests that ‘Hardly a day goes by without someone publishing an article about why autonomous vehicles (AVs) won’t see [...]

Ford Motor Co has confirmed a second death in an older pickup truck caused by a defective airbag inflator of Takata Corp according to Reuters. As a result, the media outlet reports that the vehicle manufacturer has urged 2,900 pick-up truck owners in North America to stop driving immediately until they can get replacement parts. [...]