The new Automated and Electric Vehicles Act 2018 received its Royal Assent on 19th July. This article reviews the consequences if any of the legislative measure, on the users of Connected and Automated Vehicles or “CAVs”.
New Zealand’s newest drone research company believes the first regular commercial drone service will launch in New Zealand in the next two years, but says urgent research must happen first to ensure the public’s safety.
The use of Automated Facial Recognition (AFR) within a CCTV landscape has the potential to offer many benefits to society, from supporting healthcare and helping city authorities look after our public spaces to biometric authentication for international travel, managing controlled, safe access to workplaces and leisure venues, and control of anti-social behaviours and criminal activities.
telent Technology Services Ltd (telent), the leading mission-critical network solutions provider, has partnered with Digital Global Systems (DGS), provider of enhanced RF perimeter monitoring technology to provide critical asset protection for authorities.
Germany plans to have a final strategy, and funding plans, by the end of November to present to the public at the Digital Summit 2018 on 3-4 December. The government is currently undergoing a conduct a consultation process with experts, associations, organisations and institutions.
Advanced is bringing new technology to solicitors to help drive their productivity levels and minimise work pressure, the British software and services provider has revealed.
As it stands, when an individual suffers an injury following a collision with, or in, a vehicle, as a result of a driver’s negligence, that individual is entitled to make a claim for compensation against that driver’s insurance company.
India’s drone regulation has, to this point, been very ad-hoc and fragmented, resulting in a drone industry that has not been able to capitalise on the opportunities offered by the technology. On 27th August, India’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) announced the country’s first Civil Aviation Requirements (CAR) that will go into effect on 1st December 2018.
National law firm Ashfords LLP has advised leading venture capital funds Notion Capital, Eden Ventures and BGF Ventures on the $350m sale of cloud service company NewVoiceMedia (NVM) to New York Stock Exchange-listed Vonage.
During the hurricane season last year, drones were deployed in areas affected by Harvey and Irma, showcasing UAS’ life-saving capabilities, and once again they have been instrumental in the relief efforts for areas affected by Hurricane Florence.
African businesses can now benefit from the very latest digital compliance and risk management solution, thanks to a new offering from BDO Morocco and new generation GRC solution provider OXIAL.
Amnesty International has called upon countries to ban fully autonomous weapons systems. The call came on the first day of the UN’s Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems meeting.
Integrating drones into airspace is an issue facing regulators globally, as safety concerns are prominent, while the economic potential of the technology needs to be allowed to develop and flourish. Managing this traffic with an effective system occupies many companies, hence the launch of U-Space, an initiative to implement pan-European Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM).
A court today awarded a Leeds-based translation company substantial damages after one of its competitors was found guilty of cybersquatting.
The African Union (AU) and the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) have released a report examining how drones can transform the welfare of agriculture on the continent, “Drones on the Horizon: Transforming Africa’s Agriculture”.
Liquidware, the leading third-party provider of platform-agnostic end-user computing solutions, today announced the UK leader of legal expenses insurance, DAS, has become a customer with their recent procurement of Stratusphere UX, Liquidware’s user experience monitoring and diagnostics solution.
Alistair Kinsley, director of policy and government affairs at law firm BLM, speaks to the Robotics Law Journal about the issues that manufacturers and insurers face with the advent of driverless cars, as well as how the motor insurance industry is likely to change.
Intellectual talent is this generation’s atomic weapon. There is huge economic power in data and Artificial Intelligence has the ability to unlock it, which is what lies behind the AI arms race to amass talent and become the next superpower.
The phrase “driverless cars” has received significant attention in recent years and according to Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, autonomous vehicles have already surpassed “peak hype”.
DJI, the world’s leader in civilian drones and aerial imaging technology, has hired aviation policy expert David Hansell as Public Policy Manager, helping guide the development of drone laws and regulations to ensure they help America take full advantage of the benefits of drones.
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