In a recent blog post, Google’s director of their self-driving car project, Chris Urmson has given an update on the technology that he says is better than the human eye.
Google’s autonomous vehicles have logged nearly 700,000 miles on the streets of the company’s hometown, Mountain View, California. Urmson says a mile of city driving is much more complex than a mile of freeway driving, with hundreds of different objects moving according to different rules of the road in a small area.
He claims that
Rail technology company Bombardier Transportation is to supply Metrolinx, the Province of Ontario's regional transportation agency for the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA), with an additional 125 next-generation Bombardier BiLevel commuter rail cars for service with GO Transit in Toronto. The order is valued at US$328 million and production is scheduled to start in the second quarter of 2018 with final delivery expected in the first quarter of 2020.
The BiLevel coach is a most popular double-deck
People and technology were the two key themes at a new CARTES SECURE CONNEXIONS event looking at the innovations of the near future. An interested audience at the Digital Showcase toured stalls at Salle Wagram in Paris looking at technology that, while not immediately related to the world of secure payments, illuminated issues such as security.
