It has been described as Germany's most spectacular bank heist in years. On a quiet weekend just after Christmas, a group of thieves broke into a High Street bank in the western town of Gelsenkirchen, by boring through a wall with an industrial drill. They looted more than 3,000 safe deposit boxes and made off with millions of euros. Over a month later, police have yet to make an arrest. For the bank's clients, some of whom say they have lost their life savings and precious family jewellery and valuables, this is a time of anger, confusion and shock.

Tesla shares fell nearly 9% on Friday, wiping about 60bn ( 45bn) from the company's value, after the long-awaited unveiling of its so-called robotaxi failed to excite investors. Shares in the electric carmaker tumbled to 217 at market close following an event in Hollywood, where the chief executive, Elon Musk, revealed a much-hyped driverless vehicle. The stock price is down roughly 12% year-to-date. Musk said the company would start building the fully autonomous "Cybercab" by 2026 at a price of less than 30,000, and showed off a van he claimed was capable of transporting 20 people around town autonomously – which he said would reshape cities by turning car parks into parks. Before the event, he tweeted: "And all transport will be fully autonomous within 50 years."

Ford is trialling a robot charging station for electric vehicles, which could make it easier for mobility-impaired people to charge their cars. The Michigan-based car manufacturer has demonstrated a prototype system, developed by engineers at Dortmund University, Germany. It consists of a robotic arm that extends all the way into a electric car's charging port, operated by the driver via their smartphone from inside the vehicle. After charging, the arm retracts back into place and the driver can be on their way – without having to ever get out of the car. The robotic arm extends all the way into a electric car's charging port, operated by the driver via their smartphone from inside the vehicle A charging station, which could be situated in a car park or a roadside, features a sliding door that conceals the robotic arm.

The city of Detroit in partnership with both Ford and Bosch is about to open a new Smart Parking Lab, hosted in Detroit's Bedrock Assembly Garage. It's a real-world environment to test future autonomous technologies that could be used to refine autonomous valet parking into a product. Opening in September, the facility will also enable these companies to test if it's possible to introduce automatic smart charging into the system. The Detroit Smart Parking Lab is designed to continue work showcased last summer, when Ford and Bosch showed off a self-parking Ford Escape in that same building. The vehicle was able to drive through the car park without human assistance, find a space, and reverse park into it without any stress.

Futuristic'driverless pods' are transporting passengers around a shopping centre near Bristol as part of a trial that could see them rolled out across the UK. The trial is being run by infrastructure company AECOM and, if successful, could lead to a full'open road' trial later in the year. AECOM is testing the vehicles at The Mall, Cribbs Causeway, just north of Bristol to see how they navigate large everyday obstacles. The British-made electric vehicles operate entirely autonomously, so the team wanted to test them in an area with pedestrians, scooters, bikes and animals. This is the first trial of the future transportation solution that will not have a'supervisor' monitoring the controls while passengers are inside the moving pod For the trial a pod will drive between the shopping centre and its car park, giving people a'taster' of what it is like to travel inside, says AECOM.

Autonomous vehicles are continuing to cause a stir within the parking industry, and barely a day goes by without another hypothesis of the impact they will have on traditional parking. But how realistic are these visions of an autonomous future? Stanley Robotics is already providing autonomous valet parking at several airports in Europe, and during Parking Talks, Stéphane Evanno shared his insight into what the future might hold. "So I don't think they play a big role today. They are visible and people can hear a lot about self-driving cars and find a lot of information about more robots coming. But they are not here today, they are not running real businesses today, at least not in the airport industry. But they are here enough to make people think differently and plan differently. "For instance, as you know, airports are very regularly conducting master planning exercises.

Autonomous vehicles are continuing to cause a stir within the parking industry, and barely a day goes by without another hypothesis of the impact they will have on traditional parking. But how realistic are these visions of an autonomous future? Stanley Robotics is already providing autonomous valet parking at several airports in Europe, and during Parking Talks, Stéphane Evanno shared his insight into what the future might hold. "So I don't think they play a big role today. They are visible and people can hear a lot about self-driving cars and find a lot of information about more robots coming. But they are not here today, they are not running real businesses today, at least not in the airport industry. But they are here enough to make people think differently and plan differently. "For instance, as you know, airports are very regularly conducting master planning exercises.

Passengers heading to Gatwick airport and leaving their car there will soon have it whisked away by a robot valet. The fleet of droids will put cars closer to one another than is possible with human drivers and therefore be able to fit a third more cars in the same area. A trial is starting in August which will see customers leave their car in a drop-off zone before summoning a robot through a designated app. Military grade GPS will guide the machine to the car where forklift-like equipment will approach the car from the front, slide under the car's body and move it to a specific spot. Passengers heading to Gatwick airport and leaving their car there will soon have it whisked away by a robot valet.

The rise of the driverless car could lead to city centre car parks being turned into houses, the Government has said. Transport minister Jesse Norman said the use of self-driving vehicles and shared travel could allow most high street parking spaces to be removed. This is because automated cars would be able to drive off to car parks outside city centres once they have dropped their owners off at work or the shops. This would free up space for potentially hundreds of thousands of new homes in urban areas – solving the housing crisis. The idea is contained in a consultation document on the'future of mobility'.

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