The team behind Roborace has taken a big step towards introducing a fully driverless racing competition. At a press conference in Barcelona, chief executive Denis Sverdlov and chief designer Daniel Simon revealed the final design for its track-ready "Robocar." We've seen images of the vehicle before, but they were merely renders, a hint of what the company was working on. The unveiling of a real car, all curves and carbon fibre, is our best evidence yet that the futuristic motorsport will actually happen. The complete Robocar is 4.5 meters long and 2 meters wide, considerably larger than a Formula 1 racer.

Self-driving electric cars could make car parks obsolete within the next 10 years and reduce air pollution to almost zero in Scotland's cities, an expert has predicted. The vehicles are likely to be commonplace by 2030, said Simon Tricker, of "smart cities" specialist UrbanTide, which uses technology and data to improve city planning. "Scottish local authorities are already thinking about what city streets will look like in a decade's time - and the answers are pretty astounding," he said. Private companies can't be trusted on driverless cars, minister warns Ford to offer driverless commercial vehicles by 2021 Driverless car safety revolution could stall over moral dilemma Ministers pledge to put UK at heart of driverless car revolution Private companies can't be trusted on driverless cars, minister warns "Self-driving cars won't need parking spaces in cities - they're likely to be rented rather than owned and will just head off and carry out their next journey after dropping passengers off. Many car parking spaces which we now take for granted will simply become obsolete. "The pace at which electric vehicle technology is developing means they're also likely to be electric, so will produce zero emissions as they're driven.