New degrees to prepare UK for 'driverless revolution' News portal

THE UNIVERSITY of Salford has launched new undergraduate and Master's degrees to prepare engineers for the revolution in driverless and electric vehicles. Driverless cars will be worth an estimated £63 billion to the global economy by 2035 with tens of thousands of jobs created, and the UK government has already pumped millions of pounds into tests and trials across the country. The Salford courses are thought to be the first in Europe to train engineers for the trio of new generation technologies - electric, hybrid and driverless vehicles. "The rise of new vehicles over the next decade will be vast and transformational," explains Ghasem Nasr, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Innovation at Salford. "New technology requires new skills and completely new perspectives on how we think about and engineer cars."