Driverless cars to be on UK roads 'by 2021'

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Autonomous vehicles were nothing more than a dreamt-up idea, a far reach from reality… Well that was 10 years ago. Driverless cars are amongst us as we speak, now with almost every manufacturer offering some form of autonomy in just about every model of car offered. This year we have tested a range of cars everything from the humble hatchbacks such as the Nissan Micra to the compact executive Volvo V40 both of them having aids such as adaptive cruise control and autonomous braking.
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The McLaren Vista and Halloween festivities

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570s McLaren

We awoke to the symphonious burble of a 570s, what a start to the morning, the reason I recognised this, is earlier the day before, this was the car we'd experienced on the roads of the Cotswolds, and what an experience.

After the night before's festivities, which included pre dinner drinks, a range of fine wines and soft drinks, even tea.

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Michael Eastwell sets sights on Formula E racing

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Michael Eastwell Racing
Michael Eastwell is on a journey to become a world famous racing driver and is setting his sights firmly on the new and upcoming sustainable sport Formula e, after having recently raced and had an extremely successful season, winning the US championship racing on a chassis he co-developed.
 
The Michael Eastwell racing star sees the future of motor racing being in formula e and to that end is seeking sponsors, to help him achieve his goal.
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A New ERA... MG ZS

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Today is the beginning of the new era for MG, with the announcement of the new MG ZS; the compact crossover taking on the likes of the Nissan Juke, Renualt Kajar and Mazda CX5.

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Day 1 at Goodwood Revival

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Goodwood Revival celebrating everything pre 1966-cars, fashion and everything inbetween, don your vintage attire for a petrolium infused weekend of racing. It's day one of The Revival and despite the typically British weather festivities are in full swing the public have attended in droves fully embracing the vintage era once again at Lord March's Road and Race circuit.

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Jethro Bovingdon Interview: MotorTrend onDemand

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Earlier this month we spoke to Jethro Bovingdon about his new show coming to Motor Trend. This petrol head is starring in Head to Head and Ignition. Jethro started back in May 2001 as a road tester at EVO magazine, he then went on to work for Drive Tribe, and CAR Magazine amongst others. He has now moved on to Motor Trend! 

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The experience at Concours of Elegance Hampton Court

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We've just returned from the Concours of Elegance and the sublime setting of Hampton Court in London, the palace was the perfect backdrop for the automotive excellence event which ran for three days including the Friday which was owners day followed by two public days.

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Michael Eastwell next race and new website

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Michael Eastwell Racing

Michael Eastwell racing is certainly gathering steam, with the launch of their new website which now shows Michael's next race and a countdown till launch time.

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Harry's Garage Hampton Court Concours of Elegance

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In just under a week the setting will be set at Hampton Court Palace for some of the rarest cars in existance, in addition to these fine cars, Harry Metcalf of Harry's garage will also be filming his Youtube channel Harry's Garage from the Concours of Elegance event. He will be showcasing some of the finest cars in the world including the Koenigsegg Agera RS Naraya.

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StreetDrone launches the autonomous One 2017

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StreetDrone One
Ex-F1 engineers produce testbed for autonomous technologies in aid to unify and reduce the cost of driverless testing.
The British based business StreetDrone has officially launched its affordable autonomous and unique vehicle – the StreetDrone ONE– From the Munich NVIDIA GPU conference in Munich yesterday.
The vehicle has been designed as an autonomous technology with a purpose of addressing divergence, and the growing costs and siloed research for businesses across
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Self driving wagons hitting UK roads & Tesla Truck 300m range

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Autonomous UK driving
As you've probably heard, the British Government has announced today platoons of self driving trucks (well that's an over statement), rather than small convoys of partially driverless lorries will be taking to the British highways.  Couple that with Tesla announcing their truck cabs will be able to achieve 300 mile per charge, 
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Steemit intro Planetauto

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Steemit
Ever heard of Steemit? Well Planetauto is now on this fabulous platform, a writing platform populated by many talented writers, writing about anything and everything including cars, and there I see lots of information whether that be news, history or just pictures.
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Goodwood Revival To Celebrate 1957 British GP

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Goowood Revival 2017

Next month Goodwood celebrates it's 20th and among this years festivities the event will commemorate the 60th anniversary of the famous 1957 British Grand Prix at Aintree. This is in addition to a no. of other celebrations being held at the 2017 Goodwood revival.

This momentous occasion will be one you won't want to miss, this memorable day back in 1957 saw the British racing heroes Toni Brooks and Stirling Moss share a Toni

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