RAC’s driverless Intellibus hits the road in regional WA
The Royal Automobile Club of Western Australia (RAC) is trialling it’s driverless electric shuttle bus in the seaside town of Busselton.
The Royal Automobile Club of Western Australia (RAC) is trialling it’s driverless electric shuttle bus in the seaside town of Busselton.
The company behind the surf rescue and shark spotting drones that currently patrol beaches across Australia has begun testing a new UAV that will fly remotely along Australia's coastline with "unprecedented range".
New model Volvo vehicles will automatically pull over and call for assistance if a driver is driving erratically or not focusing on the road, the manufacturer has announced.
Dr Jai Galliott – an academic at UNSW Canberra – used to be against fully autonomous weapons, an emerging class of military technology that leverages artificial intelligence to select and shoot enemies.
Internet-connected cars have the potential to prevent accidents, reduce congestion, and make them far more fuel efficient. But there are downsides too.
Australia has dropped a place in a global ranking of nations’ readiness for autonomous vehicles, an outcome industry body the Australia and New Zealand Driverless Vehicle Initiative (ADVI) says “should sound warning bells”.
A six month trial which pairs a self-driving shuttle bus and two ‘autonomous smart transit hubs’ has launched at Holdfast Bay in Adelaide.
Larry Ellison's opening keynote at Oracle's annual OpenWorld conference was littered with catchy soundbites as well as barbed criticisms of rival cloud providers, in particular AWS.
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.
The huge progress made in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology over the last decade is thanks to one person more than any other. And he’s a complete dummy.
Researchers from the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) have this week returned from a 10 day mission on the Research Vessel Cape Ferguson during which they trialed the use of underwater and aerial drones to run automated surveys of the Great Barrier Reef.
Rio Tinto’s AutoHaul project has been granted accreditation by Australia's national rail regulator to run its autonomous trains without a driver in the cab.
Close to a thousand members of the public and students have signed up to take a ride in La Trobe University’s new autonomous shuttle bus, with trials commencing next week.
The University of Melbourne has taken delivery of an autonomous shuttle vehicle as part of its effort develop vehicle to vehicle, vehicle to vulnerable road user and vehicle to infrastructure communication systems.
A fleet of unmanned autonomous sailing drones will be launched from Hobart, to monitor the notoriously treacherous, Southern Ocean.