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Imagine hopping into a car, setting the coordinates of your destination, and then sitting back to take a nap or read a book while the car safely transports you across town. Sounds like something out of a science fiction movie, no? Well, prepare yourself, because autonomous, or self-driving, cars are coming, and they will be here much sooner than you might think.

Mercedes has launched an autonomous bus with a view to the future of integrated intelligent transport systems for smart cities.The company unveiled its Mercedes-Benz Future Bus with CityPilot, which it says is “a milestone on the way to the autonomous city bus, and a revolutionary mobility system for the future”.

• CityPilot: a software platform for autonomous driving in urban public transport
• Mercedes-Benz Future Bus: autonomous vehicle with a “trailblazing” design

Autonomous vehicle technology continues to develop at pace, and it has the potential to bring sweeping changes to our transportation systems. Much of the focus is on the impact this technology will have on passenger vehicles, but the trucking industry will also experience significant change over the coming decades.

In Singapore, meanwhile, convoys of driverless trucks carry freight between terminals at the city’s bustling shipping port, while, in Germany, truck-maker MAN and operator DB Schenker plan to test twotruck platooning with HGV drivers behind the wheel – rather than testers – on the A9 motorway between the company’s Munich and Nuremberg depots by spring 2018. Likewise, Daimler’s driverless 'Future Truck 2025' has already travelled it’s first kilometers on a public highway.

Past presentation from 

Manan Qureshi, APAC Head of Security Strategy, Risk & Compliance (SSRC) Practice, Associate Partner - APAC, WW Cyber Resiliency Focal - Security Services, IBM Security

Past presentation from 

Nicholas Lauw, Partner, Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP

We spoke to Ben Le, Director of the Intelligent Driving Institute at VinFast, Vietnam’s only OEM (original equipment manufacturer) on the country’s AV market.

Read the interview to get insights on:

• How Vietnam measures up to other Asian countries in terms of AV development
  
• The key challenges the industry faces
• How VinFast plans to tackle them
• The regulatory situation for AVs in Vietnam

We spoke to MooVita's Co-Founder & Director Limbu Dilip Kumar on safety, software, and problem-solving in the development and deployment of AVs. He indicated that

• Partnership can help push AV projects from pilot to deployment.
• To ensure safety, it essential to test, redesign and validate decision-making software algorithms in billions of different driving scenarios

Past presentation from 

George Filip, Manager for CAVs, KTN

Autonomous vehicles (AV) are gradually becoming more commonplace in Asia, with both public and private transport tapping into their potential, especially in Singapore, Japan, South Korea, China and Hong Kong. However, innovation has stagnated of late — will 5G be the saviour the industry is waiting for? Read more to find out!

Past presentation from 

ZSOLT SZALAY, PhD, Associate Professor, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Faculty of Transportation, Engineering and Vehicle Engineering, Department of Automotive Technologies

In this ebook we explore why the mid-2020s are being highlighted as a potential tipping point? What technological achievements need to happen? Where will the industry be? 

Past presentation from 

Colin Singh Dhillon, Chief Technical Officer, Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association, Cananda

Past presentation from 

Mark Crawford, Chief Engineer, Autonomous Driving Systems, Great Wall Motor