Engineers in the Ford Research and Innovation labs are developing ways to help the driver stay focused in busy situations by intelligently managing incoming communications. Data from the sensing systems of driver-assist technologies can be used to determine the amount of external demand and workload upon a driver at any given time including traffic and road conditions. In addition, Ford continues its health and wellness research with the development of a biometric seat, seat belt and steering wheel that can
Google has begun discussions with most of the world's top automakers and has assembled a team of traditional and non-traditional suppliers to speed up efforts to bring self-driving cars to market by 2020, a top Google executive has said.
Those manufacturers are said to include General Motors, Ford Motor, Toyota, Daimler and Volkswagen.
"We'd be remiss not to talk to ... the biggest auto manufacturers. They've got a lot to offer," Chris Urmson, director of Google's self-driving car project, said in an
Colin Sowman picks some highlights from a one- day ASECAP Conference about the EU's new regulations on Concessions. ASECAP, the association of European tolling companies, has outlined the scale of the challenge facing authorities and tolling companies in complying with the European Union’s Directives 2014/23/EU and 2014/24/EU in a new report and at a special conference in Brussels.
