It seems that the worlds of electronic gadgetry and car making are colliding with increasing speed with yet another announcement from an Internet upstart that they are to venture into the wonderful world of mobility.
The producers of the new Bond film, Spectre, appear to have no qualms causing total destruction and squeezing in as much explosions and chaos as they can into the action scenes. We can expect to see the secret agent pursued, in his Aston Martin, past famous Italian landmarks – through the Vatican, past the Colosseum and along the River Tiber – by a baddie in a Jaguar C-X75.
When tourists flock to Tokyo for the Olympics in 2020, they could find themselves being whisked from place to place in unmanned taxis.
Forget all the doom and gloom about car sales that are coming out of so many places around the world – car dealers in the UK have never had it so good
In the few years that we have been writing this Blog, this is the first time that we are writing a story on Norway. The relatively lowly populated Scandinavian nation – more famous for Vikings, smoked salmon, the most expensive alcoholic drinks in the world (so we’ve heard) as well as an abundance of oil and gas – is still leading the way in electric vehicle (EV) sales, at least as a percentage of all new car sales, according to industry analysts IHS Automotive.
For all the doubters and naysayers of automated vehicle technology, the past few weeks have been very depressing.