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Toyota invests $50m in autonomous cars
- September 8, 2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: Industry News
Toyota is making a major investment into developing intelligent and self-driving vehicles alongside two leading US universities. Over the next five years, Toyota Motor Corporation will invest approximately $50 million (about £32 million) in establishing joint research centres at both Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), to further its expertise in computer science and human-machine interaction with [...] -
Driverless car trials to begin in Australia
- July 21, 2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: Industry News
Volvo will conduct the first on-road trials of driverless cars in the Southern Hemisphere in South Australia in November. The testing by Volvo will be held in conjunction with an international conference on driverless cars in Adelaide. Volvo will test the same vehicle being used in their ‘Drive Me’ project in Sweden. South Australia legalised [...]