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Mar 18

Whatever Happened to Flying Cars?


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The flying car has long been an icon of popular culture’s vision of the future. However, most people think that it will never happen – when in reality, the truth is that it already has. The flying car has in fact already been invented, and on no less than two separate occasions – and in fact the first such invention was actually created all the way back in the 1940s by a man named Ted Hall, an aeronautical engineer based out of San Diego in the United States.

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25
Jan 18

Self Driving Car Tests Take Place in Coventry


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The biggest connected and autonomous motor vehicle test ever held on public roads in the United Kingdom took place in November in Coventry, with the self-driving technology being tested out in real-life situations for the very first time. The trials were organised by the UK Autodrive Project, members of which include the likes of Jaguar Land Rover, the Tata Motors European Technical Centre and Ford. All of them donated one of their own models to take part in the test, with Ford sending a Mondeo, Tata a Hexa, and Jaguar Land Rover sending both an F-Pace and a Range Rover Sport.

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