The China-Sweden Research Centre for Traffic Safety (CTS), with Volvo Car Group in a leading role, is now starting a close-up study of driving behaviour in the Chinese megacities Beijing and Shanghai. The insight into how drivers handle these exceptionally busy traffic environments is an important part of Volvo Cars’ aim to develop safety systems that help drivers all over the world to avoid accidents.
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Test loopholes take gloss off Europe’s cleaner cars
New cars sold in the European Union last year emitted 4 percent less carbon dioxide than those sold the previous year, data from the European Environment Agency showed, although environmental campaigners said the improvement was exaggerated.
The decline in carbon dioxide emissions from cars to an average of 127 g/km means carmakers easily achieved the European Union target of cutting emissions to 130 g/km two years ahead of a 2015 deadline.
São Paulo switch from ethanol to petrol reduced ozone levels by 20%
A study by a pair of researchers at Northwestern University found that when fuel prices drove residents of São Paulo, Brazil, to switch from ethanol to gasoline in their flexible-fuel vehicles, local ozone levels dropped 20%. At the same time, nitric oxide and carbon monoxide concentrations tended to go up.
Driverless cars are mastering city streets
Google says that cars it has programmed to drive themselves have started to master the navigation of city streets and the challenges they bring, from jaywalkers to weaving bicyclists — a critical milestone for any commercially available self-driving car technology.
Carmakers promise Chinese drivers a breath of fresh air
Air that’s cleaner inside your car than on the outside — in smog-weary China it’s an attractive sales pitch, and the world’s biggest automakers are racing to cash in.
