Self-Driving

The US, like much of the world, is moving to keep contact between its residents to minimum as it grapples with the spread of coronavirus, and a new project taking place at the Mayo Clinic is exploring what this could mean for medical testing.

Vehicles that drive themselves – and you – around city streets and urban sprawls are coming whether we like it or not, and Jaguar Land Rover has jumped into the development arena with Project Vector.

RV chassis builder AL-KO joins Dethleffs and OzXcorp in working toward an electric-driven camping trailer that can partially power itself. Instead of leaving out the motorized RV segment, it's also developing an electrified motorhome chassis.

In a significant step forward for the autonomous vehicle industry, the US Department of Transport (DOT) has granted its first ever self-driving vehicle exemption to startup Nuro, meaning its autonomous delivery pod can now push ahead on public roads.

Dethleffs isn't the only company pondering an electrified camping trailer. Australian firm OzXcorp is hard at work on a supplementary e-drive to turn hard-edged off-road caravans into semi-self-propelled machines with Level 4 autonomous capabilities.

Volkswagen hinted at some degree of self-driving capability when announcing a production version of its ID. Buzz electric Kombi van in 2017, and it now appears Qatar will be among the first locales to experience these skills in full fight.

After first revealing its autonomous electric delivery pod in January last year, robotics startup Nuro has now teamed up with Walmart for grocery delivery by self-driving pod in the Houston metro area.

A startup founded by two university students has announced that it's received a cash injection that will allow it to launch a pilot fleet of self-driving vehicles in central London.

Lexus' spindle grille might be the most controversial auto styling cue of our time. And now it's a concept car. The LF-30, an otherwise fun, drone-docking autonomous EV, debuts as a bumper-to-bumper spindle grille ... with bulging spindle grille.

EDAG imagines a smarter, more networked form of urban mobility. Its intelligent, autonomous CityBot pairs with different modules to work all day.

Hymer's Concept Galileo looks ahead to the year 2030, when we could have self-driving, tour-guiding camper pods customized to the traveler's every whim.

Scania has developed a number of self-driving trucks that are currently in service, but they've always included a cabin just in case a human driver needs to take over ... until now.