Autonomous Vehicle Archives - Mechtraveller https://mechtraveller.com/tag/autonomous-vehicle/ Mechanically-minded travel Mon, 01 Sep 2025 11:07:57 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 How many autonomous vehicles can one person safely monitor remotely? https://mechtraveller.com/2025/09/how-many-autonomous-vehicles-can-one-person-safely-monitor-remotely/ https://mechtraveller.com/2025/09/how-many-autonomous-vehicles-can-one-person-safely-monitor-remotely/#respond Mon, 01 Sep 2025 11:03:46 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=11977 It’s a good question. Especially as self-driving vehicle trials expand across the UK and there is a need for remote oversight on services such as driverless buses, delivery vehicles and robotaxis (not private vehicles), where one person can monitor several vehicles as they follow fixed routes and can intervene remotely if something goes wrong. Monitoring […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2025/09/how-many-autonomous-vehicles-can-one-person-safely-monitor-remotely/feed/ 0 A new electric car brand launches in the UK https://mechtraveller.com/2025/02/a-new-electric-car-brand-launches-in-the-uk/ https://mechtraveller.com/2025/02/a-new-electric-car-brand-launches-in-the-uk/#respond Thu, 13 Feb 2025 10:03:57 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=11465 A Chinese high-tech automotive company, XPENG, has announced its official entry into the UK electric car market and opened the pre-sale of its first right-hand drive model, the ultra-smart all-electric mid-size coupe SUV, XPENG G6. XPENG is developing state-of-the-art driving assist systems that can be updated over the air and include autonomous driving control and […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2025/02/a-new-electric-car-brand-launches-in-the-uk/feed/ 0 Another Attack on a Historic Battlefield Site https://mechtraveller.com/2018/09/another-attack-on-a-historic-battlefield-site/ https://mechtraveller.com/2018/09/another-attack-on-a-historic-battlefield-site/#comments Wed, 12 Sep 2018 15:52:18 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=3676 Hardly a month seems to go by without another story of how the preservation of a battlefield site, usually in the USA or UK, is threatened by developers. In Scotland over recent months we’ve seen moves to build houses on part of Culloden¹, to accommodate a road widening scheme (the A9) over the historic Jacobite […]

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