Lexus and Telstra trial connected vehicle tech on Victorian roads
Lexus is trialling a range of connected-vehicle technologies on public roads in Victoria, the car manufacturer announced today.
Lexus is trialling a range of connected-vehicle technologies on public roads in Victoria, the car manufacturer announced today.
Fortescue Metals Group is launching an autonomous vehicle research and development hub in the Pilbara region town of Karratha.
Mining technology research organisation Mining3 is seeking to benchmark the accuracy and reliability of proximity detection systems, the units fitted to autonomous trucks to help them avoid collisions.
Australian iron ore miner Fortescue said that one of its driverless trucks, travelling at low speed, ran into another that was parked at its remote Western Australian operations in an incident earlier this week.
Bosch will commence a trial of its automated vehicle technology on “high speed rural roads” in Victoria later this year.
None of the 11 teams that flew in this year’s Medical Express Challenge for unmanned aerial vehicles was able to complete the mission, leaving the potential $75,000 prize money unclaimed.
The university said the program would take students “beyond the hype and headlines” and give them the skills required in career as a qualified self-driving car engineer.
A Sydney Metro driverless train passed a “historic test” yesterday, crossing the future transport system’s new railway bridge over Windsor Road at Rouse Hill.
Rio Tinto’s fully autonomous train has completed its first delivery of iron ore between the miner’s Mount Tom Price mine and the port of Cape Lambert, the organisation announced today.
A driverless shuttle bus will carry passengers on public roads in South Australia for the first time as part of a five-year trial of autonomous vehicle technology backed by the state government.
The timing couldn’t have been worse.
The CTO of Mobileye has claimed the company’s advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) software would have seen the pedestrian killed by a self-driving Uber car last week.
Mining giant Rio Tinto says its autonomous railway project AutoHaul is making “strong progress” and on schedule to be complete by the end of the year.
The Rio Tinto Brockman 4 mine's truck fleet will “run entirely” in autonomous mode, following a retrofit of driverless technology scheduled for completion in mid-2019.
The giant pink trucks at the Roy Hill iron ore mine in WA will operate without human drivers from next year, the company's chief executive said today.