Greece - yet another reason to travel there
Everyone is smiling on the driverless CityMobil2 bus on the roads of a city in Greece. Can't help thinking - Look ma, no hands! After the pilot is over, what next? People already seemed tickled pink by the cute pod bus. Watch the video.
New for neighborhoods, I mean housing developments, in China
Safety, avoiding pesky human labor, and rational mobility within an enclosed community are the reasons why China's largest property development company is investing big time in driverless technology. Watch the video as the small pod - a six-seater - travels about. The same developer will be opening a hotel in 2017 with an all-robot staff. Solves the issue of a labor shortage.
Down under - plastic kangaroos, oh no
South Australia is trying hard to attract the emerging driverless vehicle industry and Volvo has arrived. Unfortunately, the first ride involved a collision between an inflatable kangaroo and a car with the South Australian transport minister, one Stephen Mullighan.
Turns out the collision was human error. Had the driverless car been left to itself, the collision would have been avoided. But the human stepped in, or rather, touched the brake.
Now Volvo will be testing its vehicles in South Australia. They can even operate at night, hopefully avoiding actual marsupials. Volvo is - no joke - studying marsupials.
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