Boeing’s Autonomous Passenger Air Vehicle completes its first flight
Boeing has successfully completed the first test flight of its autonomous passenger air vehicle (PAV) prototype. Boeing NeXt, which leads the company’s urban air mobility efforts, utilised Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences to design and develop the electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft and will continue testing to advance the safety and reliability of […]
Mercedes-Benz debuts autonomous bus of the future
What urban public transport will look like in the future is shown by Mercedes-Benz’s semi-automated city bus with CityPilot. Mercedes say it operates even more safely, efficiently and comfortably than a conventional bus – it certainly looks the part. Connectivity plus camera and radar systems with data fusion are catapulting the bus into the future […]
Stagecoach to trial the UK’s first full-size driverless bus
Stagecoach is set to trial the UK’s first full-sized driverless bus. Yes. It’s happening. The autonomous vehicle revolution is here. Well actually, it’s kind of underway already, with trials of AVs happening all over the world as we speak (see the partnership between manufacturer Navya, la Métropole de Lyon and Sytral for one such example). RATP in […]