The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has given its backing to Google’s self-driving car technology. In a letter to the technology giant the NHTSA, which until now has maintained any car without a human driver would not be considered roadworthy, explained its new perspective. NHTSA chief counsel, Paul Hemmersbaugh wrote: ‘NHTSA will interpret [...]

Zurich has announced plans to withdraw 8,000 roles by the end of 2018 after announcing a 37% reduction in profits for 2015. The roles include the 440 job cuts made last year in the UK and hundreds of roles being made redundant in Germany. Speaking to Post, Zurich’s interim CEO, Tom de Swaan, said, ‘We [...]

Ford has reported record sales in China for the first month of 2016, with sales jumping 36% compared to January 2015. It sold 130,832 vehicles last month, with strong sales in Escorts, Mondeos and Ford’s sport utility fleet driving the increase. Changan Ford Automobile, Ford’s passenger car joint venture, also achieved records figures with 111,856 [...]

The Times of India reports that the Pune based Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI) intends to foray into other business sectors once all the centres under the centrally-funded National Automotive Testing and R&D Infrastructure Project (NATRiP) become fully operational. A total of seven centres will be set up across the country under NATRiP. Some [...]

A survey from LeasePlan has revealed that the UK public (78%) are the fourth most comfortable with being a passenger in driverless cars behind Denmark (83%), the Netherlands (83%) and Germany (81%). Sixteen per cent of UK respondents were completely fine with being a passenger and 62% said they would feel nervous but still try [...]