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Majority comfortable with driverless cars
- February 3, 2016
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: Industry News
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 [...] -
First Dutch self-driving bus trials held
- February 2, 2016
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: Industry News
The first driverless vehicle to be tested on public roads in the Netherlands has officially been conducted. The WePod bus is the first of a proposed fleet of autonomous vehicles, and is being tested in the Dutch town of Wageningen. The first trial took place on 28 January, when it took six people on a 200m journey through the [...] -
SUVs were Europe’s top sellers in 2015
- February 2, 2016
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: Industry News
Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs) were the highest selling cars in Europe in 2015, which meant the sector is top for the first time. The boom in SUV sales saw European new car registrations increase by 9.3% in 2015. The sector saw an increase of 24% to 3.2 million units, which was a market share increase from 19.8% in [...] -
Autonomous vehicles to impact insurance
- February 2, 2016
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: Industry News
Research has found that 380 million vehicles worldwide will have some form of autonomy in 14 years time, which will have an impact on the car insurance market. In the 2016 edition of the Usage-Based Insurance (UBI) study, consultancy firm PTOLEMUS made the forecast that 380 million semi, highly or fully autonomous vehicles (AVs) will be [...] -
Parts shortage affects Toyota production
- February 1, 2016
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: Industry News
Toyota has suspended all Japanese car production for one week after an explosion at a steel factory lead to a shortage of parts. The car maker will halt domestic production for the week beginning 8 February. Production will restart on 15 February, while international production will not be affected. The decision by the company to suspend production [...]