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A stock image of a driverless electric car

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Driverless cars can be tricked into seeing red traffic lights as green

Aiming lasers at the cameras used in driverless cars caused them to incorrectly interpret red traffic lights as green 30 per cent of the time

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Electric car plugged in and changing on urban city street

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Fix the Planet newsletter: Solving charging anxiety for electric cars

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Google and Waymo used driverless cars to make a virtual San Francisco

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Google and Waymo used driverless cars to make a virtual San Francisco

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Waymo's autonomously driven Jaguar I-PACE electric SUV

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Google and Waymo used driverless cars to make a virtual San Francisco

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KW40RY hong kong traffic jam

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Hong Kong’s car pollution sensors help it clean its air in world first

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A driverless car that went rogue could be a taste of the robo uprising

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A driverless car that went rogue could be a taste of the robo uprising

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Jenson Button in Extreme E car

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Jenson Button: ‘Extreme E is great racing without combustion engines’

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Mandatory Credit: Photo by Uncredited/AP/Shutterstock (10421309a) This Jan. 12, 2019, photo captured by a Mobile Phone Detection Camera and released by Transport for NSW shows a driver using a mobile phone while driving in Australia. Australian state New South Wales is attempting to persuade the public to put down their smartphones while driving by rolling out cameras to prosecute distracted motorists. New South Wales Roads Minister Andrew Constance said, Australia's most populous state was the first jurisdiction in the world to use such technology to punish drivers distracted by social media, text messages or phone calls. The government intends to roll out 45 Mobile Phone Detection Cameras across the state by December, he said Australia Distracted Drivers - 23 Sep 2019

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Australia’s AI cameras catch over 270,000 drivers using their phones

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Car production line

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Electric cars expected to outsell diesel ones in the UK next year

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What’s next now Tesla is worth a trillion dollars?

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What’s next now Tesla is worth a trillion dollars?

Financially speaking, Tesla is a massive success. The question is what will it do with all that money, wonders Rowan Hooper

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Why self-driving cars could be going the way of the jetpack

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Should we all wear sensors to avoid being run over by driverless cars?

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Green energy app lets your car charge when electricity is cheapest

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Motor industry lobbied for a loophole in UK fossil fuel car ban

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