Category: Autos
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German city announces ban on diesel vehicles
Hamburg will become the first German city to impose a partial ban on diesel vehicles as part of the country’s much-debated move to improve air quality. The port city is set to block portions of two streets for older diesel cars and trucks from May 31, the local environmental agency said. Pressure has been building…
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How Google is turning self-driving cars from science fiction into reality
Today at Google I/O, Google’s annual developer conference, Dmitri Dolgov, CTO and VP of Engineering, shared details on how Waymo is using artificial intelligence (AI) to make fully self-driving cars a reality. TheNewsGuru report Waymo is an autonomous car development company and subsidiary of Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc. Google began testing self-driving cars in…
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TRENDING: DTHA Deputy Speaker gifts wife N50 million custom-made SUV
Deputy Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly (DTHA), Osanebi Friday Ossai, at the weekend, gifted his wife, Ogechi Osanebi Ossai, a custom-made Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) to mark her birthday anniversary. TheNewsGuru gathers that the SUV, a custom-made 2017 Land Rover Range Rover Evoque, is valued at about N50 million. The cheapest variant…
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Tech records first self-driving cars fatality as Uber robotic car kills woman
Arizona police on Monday said an Uber self-driving car hit and killed a woman crossing the street, making it the first fatality involving an autonomous vehicle. This is a potential blow to the technology that is expected to transform the transport industry, with Uber saying it is suspending North American tests of its self-driving vehicles,…
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Peugeot launches youth empowerment initiative in Nigeria
Automobile manufacturer, Peugeot, has launched a corporate social responsibility (CSR) known as Shade Tree Youth Empowerment Initiative (STYEI) in Nigeria. At the launch which held at the Peugeot Automobile Nigeria (PAN) premises in Kaduna, the company stressed STYEI is targeted at young people committed to becoming entrepreneurs within the service value chain of the automotive…
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Cars top world’s most traded goods with N486 trillion of trade [LIST]
Cars are the top goods traded worldwide with $1.35 trillion (roughly N486 trillion) being traded each year between countries. A World Economic Forum (WEF) report revealed this, with auto parts not far behind at number four spot with $685 billion (N246 trillion) of trade. Here are the good categories, along with the total dollar value…
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Nepal bans vehicles older than 20 years
Nepal on Thursday banned from the roads vehicles older than 20 years across the country in a bid to control worsening air quality and to ease traffic congestion, officials said. The government decision, which followed a similar campaign in the capital Kathmandu a year ago, has forced more than 5,000 ageing vehicles, including buses and…
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Self-piloted air taxi takes to sky in New Zealand
A California-based company unveiled an autonomous air taxi on Tuesday in Christchurch, with an eye on revolutionising personal air travel within the next decade. The company Kitty Hawk, which operates as Zephyr Airworks in New Zealand, showed off the self-piloted electric aircraft, which looks like a cross between an aeroplane and a drone. “This aircraft…
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Byton unveils SUV with 49-inch screen, multiple independent displays [Photos]
Byton has unveiled a car it said will emphasize on in-cabin experience of passengers, with multiple independent displays and a ginormous 49-inch, wrap-around front screen. The Chinese startup unveiled the future car concept at the 2018 edition of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) to the astonishment of journalists, investors and possible partners. The Byton car…
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Quick read: 8 cool features of future cars
The year 2017 saw a lot of advancement in science and technology, and in the auto industry, we saw a purview of all what could feature in future cars. Developments so far show that the following could be some of the coolest features of future cars: 1. Spherical wheels Car wheels as we know them…