Self Driving Cars in Construction and Infrastructure
Self Driving Cars is becoming increasingly important across global construction, infrastructure and industrial technology, influencing how projects are visualised, coordinated, delivered and managed over time.
In focus
From planning and design to field execution and asset management, this topic sits at the centre of digital change across the built environment, helping teams improve visibility, accuracy, coordination and long-term performance.
Autonomous vehicle development has never really been limited by ambition. Instead, it has been constrained by economics. Over the past decade, most programmes have relied...
Across the globe, urban centres are groaning under the weight of outdated transport systems, rising congestion, and the unrelenting need to slash emissions. In parallel,...
Self-driving electric vehicles still face steep hills on the road to reliability. Researchers from the Department of Energyβs Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Western Mi...
Safety issues of self-driving cars have emerged due to frequent self-driving traffic accidents. A self-healing lens material that can prevent car accidents that occur due...
Today,Β Faction Technology, Inc., a self-driving technology provider for affordable driverless fleets, has announced the expanded commercial availability of its self-drivi...
At a traffic light, red means stop and green means go. But transportation engineers at North Carolina State University are now proposing a βwhite light,β which would enab...
Gatik, the market leader in autonomous middle mile logistics, today announced the launch of its fully driverless commercial operations with Canadaβs leading food and phar...
RoboSense, a world-leading provider of Smart LiDAR Sensor Systems launched upgraded 128-beam LiDAR,Β RS-Ruby Plus, designed for autonomous driving commercial operation, an...
According to TomTomβs 2021 Traffic Index, global congestion levels are still 10% lower than pre-pandemic. Interestingly, figures also show that when traffic did start to...
Petrol and diesel cars will be banned by 2030 and all-electric autonomous vehicles will replace them. The hype around the future of mobility is rising as 11% of responden...
Self-driving cars or vehicles with autopilot modes are revolutionary, but they donβt come without their risks. People have established a number of ways in which self-driv...
A study from the UKβs largest independent road safety charity, IAM RoadSmart, has revealed that 60 percent of motorists consider the growing ability of vehicles to drive...
Self-driving vehicles are exactly what the name says. They are vehicles that do not require human drivers to take control to operate the vehicle in a safe manner. We curr...
Golfers and their caddies appearing at The ISPS Handa Wales Open will today be taken out to the opening tee in a driverless shuttle, powered by Vodafoneβs 4G network. The...
The MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future has released a new research brief examining the future of autonomous vehicles. The brief is part of a series of subject-speci...
According to the global status report on road safety from the World Health Organization, approximately 1.35 million people died in traffic accidents in 2018, and 3,700 pe...
Safer, more convenient, greener: connected vehicles that can communicate with roadside infrastructure in real time reduce emissions and the risk of accidents.Β This commun...
Five, the UK self-driving company, has raised $41M in a Series B round of equity funding. New investors are Trustbridge Partners, Direct Line Group and Sistema VC. Existi...
In 2018, researchers at MIT and the auto manufacturer BMW were developing an algorithm to test ways in which humans and robots might work in close proximity to assemble c...
A novel model developed by MIT and Microsoft researchers identifies instances in which autonomous systems have βlearnedβ from training examples that donβt match whatβs ac...
Jaguar Land Rover has fitted βvirtual eyesβ to intelligent pods to understand how humans will trust self-driving vehicles, as research studies suggest that as many as 63%...
Good signing and road markings could cut run-off crashes by up to 80% over the next 30-40 years with the car of the future. These may be the easiest crashes to prevent in...
Thatcham Research and the ABI (Association of British Insurers) are today issuing an urgent call to carmakers and legislators for greater clarity around the capability of...
With the pace of change in technology and the hype surrounding the arrival of autonomous cars, the parking industry needs to look at the likely developments in the parkin...
MIT researchers have developed a system that can produce images of objects shrouded by fog so thick that human vision canβt penetrate it. It can also gauge the objectsβ d...
The Andrews Labor Government is leading the way on automated vehicle technology with historic legislation passing Victorian Parliament this week that allows driverless ve...
Laura Schewel, CEO and co-founder of transport analytics company StreetLight Data answers some practical questions on the future of autonomous vehicles. Practicality Ther...
For the past 10 years, the Camera Culture group at MITβs Media Lab has been developing innovative imaging systems β from a camera that can see around corners to one that...
The Road Surface Treatments Association (RSTA) has greeted the Chancellorβs, Philip Hammond, announcement that driverless cars will be on Britainβs roads by 2021 with som...
The self-driving truck, driving autonomously from one hub to another, is part of a development project exploring how automation can contribute to increased productivity,...
General Motors aims to solve some of the toughest transportation challenges created by natural disasters, complex logistics environments and global conflicts. The company...
WSP has been commissioned by Highways England to drive forward its connected and autonomous vehicles (CAV) programme over the next four years in a contract worth Β£1.5 mil...
Colas in partnership with US companies Royal Truck and Equipment (RT&E) and Micro Systems Inc. (MSI) have developed the worldβs first Autonomous Impact Protection Veh...
On the second of December PLP Architecture held a conference at theΒ Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) to unveil their CARTUBE concept. CARTUBE takes the idea o...
Autonomous cars are coming to a road near you Self-driving cars and trucks are now a reality, moving from the test-track on to our roads. Volvo, Mercedes, BMW, Tesla and...
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