Governments are “lagging behind” in developing regulations to ensure the safety of autonomous vehicles (AVs).
This was among the main messages from a key session at this week’s Consumer Electronics Event 2019 event in Las Vegas, US.
Speaking during ‘Mobility and Connectivity Perspectives from the C-suite’, Joe Vitale, global automotive leader at Deloitte, said the company’s yearly consumer study has shown that more people feel getting into an AV is unsafe, which is in part due to the deaths caused b
Eberle Design’s iCite Data Aggregator received an International Road Federation Global Road Achievement Award at the Road2Tunnel Conference & Expo in Las Vegas.
Eberle says the solution accesses real-time intersection and arterial traffic data for traffic cabinets via high-speed internal and external communication devices regardless of the traffic controller or central traffic management system.
Optimus Ride is to launch autonomous vehicle (AV) mobility services for residents and workers in Brooklyn, New York and Paradise Valley Estates in Fairfield, California.
The company says it will deploy the AVs (or ‘self-driving vehicles’, as it calls them) at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, a 300-acre modern industrial park, before June. The service will run on private roads, providing a loop shuttle service to connect NYC Ferry passengers to Flushing Avenue, outside the yard’s perimeter.
David Ehrenberg, presid
Manufacturer of anti-ram vehicle barriers Gibraltar has supplied over 800 bollards to the Las Vegas Boulevard to protect pedestrians from errant vehicles. The solution is said to be able to withstand a 15,000 lbs (7.5 tons) medium-duty vehicle travelling at 50mph and has also been created to meet ASTM F2656-07 M50 P1 requirements. Müller Construction installed the bollards in around a six-week time frame. Jim Castello, president of Gibraltar Material Distribution, said: "Due to the recent events that we
