Electric vehicles are slowly becoming an established part of the world’s transport ecosystem, but while Norway is known as the green car capital, France is leading the way in electric vehicle infrastructure. According to the new Electric Car Index from OSV Ltd, the French installed more than a third more electric vehicle charging points (11,987) [...]

Suncorp has revealed it is exploring image recognition and augmented reality-based enhancements for its insurance claims process, adding to the AI systems it deployed last year. The insurer began testing IBM Watson software last June to automatically determine who is at fault in a vehicle accident. The AI software has since been integrated into the [...]

The vision of autonomous cars could be blurred by a lack of coordination between driverless cars and driven cars. That’s the verdict of Hagai Zyss, CEO of the Israeli company Autotalks, which specialises in accident prevention through the use of DSRC (Dedicated Short Range Communication) V2X (Vehicle-to-Everything) technology. He said, ‘The problem of coordinating autonomous [...]

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. [...]