Despite the recent pair of fatal crashes involving self-driving cars, there’s wide agreement that autonomous vehicles will sharply reduce the number of people who die in motor vehicle accidents. In the U.S. alone, traffic accidents claim more than 30,000 lives…
The Finnish Transport Agency’s intelligent road Aurora has been opened
The intelligent road Aurora, completed in the autumn of 2017, offers the opportunity to test intelligent transport systems and proactive road condition management by providing the supporting physical infrastructure and data services. The 10-kilometre intelligent road section offers the opportunities…
World’s Largest Test Bed for Self-driving Cars to Be Opened in Korea
The South Korean government opens the K-City in October this year. It is the world’s largest test bed for self-driving cars. In the K-City, self-driving car developers can repeat their tests with various scenarios and road environments. In November last…
Testing of the autonomous Future Bus
The CityPilot autonomous bus technology of Mercedes-Benz, used by the company’s Future Bus vehicles, made a trip in the Netherlands that signals the next step toward the implementation of self-driving vehicles in public transportation. The CityPilot technology was adapted to…
Autonomous vehicles workshop at BME
In the field of autonomous vehicles BME is planning the development of multilevel and efficient laboratories, recruitment of talented foreign students and reaching international scientific results. “The pillars of RECAR (Research Center for Autonomous Road Vehicles) are education, research and…
New masters programme starting
BME and ELTE in cooperation with RECAR are planning the launch of 2 bilingual masters programmes: both will start in February of 2018. The graduates of the Faculty of Transportation Engineering and Vehicle Engineering of BME will be awarded an engineer title…
The foundation has been signed
The rector of the BME has signed a cooperation with 2 well-known global multinational companies Bosch and Knorr Bremse. This is a very special moment: BME as leader in higher educational engineering studies, ELTE as leader in natural science studies…
Audi TT simulator
The development of intelligent vehicles is being helped with the Audi TT simulator, which is located within the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) grounds. We get a real-time animation of the vehicle and it’s surroundings, which is projected…
RECAR has been founded
Acting according to the current research trends, we have founded RECAR in September 2015, with the initiation of BME. Soon ELTE and MTA-SZTAKI have joined the new autonomous vehicle research project.