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Two recent articles show that the adoption of autonomous vehicles is not straightforward. Mercedes Benz can now sell cars in California equipped with an autonomous driving program but only on highways...

If it is digital, it is hackable, and some security experts worry that keyless entry for vehicles isn’t secure enough. This is a worry that might present problems for Uber’s new car-sharing service.

The Insurance Institute of Highway Safety (IIHS) reports that some cities in the US are restricting speeds on e-scooters to increase safety, but that this leads to increased driving on sidewalks.

On Monday, TuSimple announced that it began Level 4 autonomous test runs along Japan’s most critical freight corridor connecting the major cities of Tokyo, Nagoya, and Osaka.

The new government in Berlin, elected in February, has shifted from the outgoing governments focus on public transit and active travel to the rights of motorists, B loomberg reports .

Agreeing a multiyear deal, Waymo and Uber will work together in Phoenix and San Francisco to deliver food and people.

A new report highlights the impact of the pandemic on public transport systems like New York City’s subway. Ridership has finally reached 2020 levels, but the system is on financial life support.

Simulation a common, if not the only, option for training and testing autonomous vehicles. But how different is it from training an autonomous system in the real world and who will be deciding if...

The International Transport Forum (ITF), a part of the OECD, has recently published a report laying out the characteristics for a definition of what counts as New Mobility.

Data maximization is the idea that the more data collected the smarter an autonomous system could get. Autonomy companies have long had this approach, but that appears to be changing.

The French government has announced plans to invest €2 billion in improving the country's cycling infrastructure and encouraging people to purchase bikes.

Doubling the area it covers with its commercial robotaxi services Waymo will connect new suburbs and previously isolated sections while increasing scaling its operations.

Tokyo is one of the most anti-car big cities in the world, even though it is impossible to say so about the rest of Japan. How did Tokyo resist the car?

New York has started using sensors that track movements of up to nine modes of movement at various intersections.

Paris is set to become the first European capital to ban shared e-scooters . Will this start a trend that other cities follow?

Waymo publishes a blueprint for a safety case for autonomous vehicle operations to gain public trust and encourage transparency in the industry.

Five leading e-scooter and e-bike operators have published ten recommendations to help European cities integrate shared micromobility vehicles more safely onto their streets.

Chinese robotaxi operator WeRide.ai has filed to go public in the U.S. and their valuation jumped to $4.4 billon on the news.

The Department of Transportation in the US has r eceived a request for an exemption from Waymo and Aurora. The exemption applied for is from the requirement to place warning devices around stopped...

Some have high hopes that the next generations apparent disinterest in cars will lead to cities that are less dependent on cars. Bloomberg’s latest article argues otherwise, claiming that decades of...

On February 16, cycling is finally recognized as a fully-fledged mode of transport by the EU Parliament with the presentation of a plan for doubling the number of kilometres cycled in Europe by 2030.

From a recent review by the UK’s Law Commission, it might be that the UK is moving towards a prohibition of vehicles being remotely operated if the operator is overseas.

The “15-minute city” concept is gradually becoming more widely known and more popular in urban planning. However, not everybody is happy with this, and some in the UK are claiming it is a plot.

It was recently announced that Dubai will build a 93-kilometre long climate-controlled highway called “THE LOOP”. This is a part of the cities wider 20-minute city project.