Governor of Ohio John Kasich has signed an executive order allowing autonomous vehicles (AVs) to be tested on public roads in the state. The move is intended to lay out a road map for how the automotive industry can test their technologies.
The AVs are required to meet safety standards and comply with Ohio’s traffic regulations. All vehicles would also need to be registered with the state's one-stop shop for hub for mobility projects, DriveOhio. Each car must have a company employee behind the wheel who
Belgian public transport operator STIB is to test three diesel-electric hybrid standard bus prototypes from manufacturers IVECO, Solaris and Volvo on route 64 in Brussels for two months, beginning in August 2017, with the aim of acquiring 235 hybrid buses within two years.
Israeli start-up Foretellix has received $14 million in funding to further develop a solution which measures the safety of autonomous vehicles (AV) in a range of scenarios.
Foretellix says its coverage driven verification solution enables developers to test AVs in hundreds of millions of driving scenarios.
Ziv Binyamini, CEO of Foretellix, says: “This funding will help us accelerate the industry transition from ‘quantity of miles’ to ‘quality of coverage’ and broad deployment.”
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