Jaguar Land Rover is building a new testing facility near its Gaydon headquarters to test its upcoming vehicles for electrical and radio interference. The so-called Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) laboratory will ensure future vehicles meet current and future legislation and quality standards for connectivity and electronics. The new Ranger Rover Sport, which was launched in May, was the first car to undergo bespoke testing at the facility. "The importance of testing our vehicles for electromagnetic compatibility cannot be underestimated. Opening this new testing facility is an important step forward for the business and it will play a crucial role in helping us deliver quality, legal, and customer satisfaction," says Peter Phillips, Senior Manager, Electromagnetics and Compliance at Jaguar Land Rover.

For decades, anyone who wanted to know whether a new car was safe to drive could simply put it through its paces, using tests established through trial and error. Such tests might investigate whether the car can take a sharp turn while keeping all four wheels on the road, brake to a stop over a short distance, or survive a collision with a wall while protecting its occupants. But as cars take an ever greater part in driving themselves, such straightforward testing will no longer suffice. We will need to know whether the vehicle has enough intelligence to handle the same kind of driving conditions that humans have always had to manage. To do that, automotive safety-assurance testing has to become less like an obstacle course and more like an IQ test.

Coronavirus tests should be delivered to people's homes using drones to cut the spread of the deadly infection, a study has suggested. The proposal would see batches tests of tests ferried from centralised test facilities out the the public, allowing authorities to determine who needed to be quarantined. At the same time, removing the need to visit testing facilities would minimise the risk of aiding the disease's spread among the population in the process. They suggest that 36 drones each carrying 100 tests could visit everyone in such a city of population 100,000 inhabitants repeatedly every four days. However, even running tests of individuals every 30 days, they said, 'would flatten the curve quite significantly.' Coronavirus tests should be delivered to people's homes using drones to cut the spread of the deadly infection, a study has suggested The proactive screening of the general population for coronavirus infection -- especially in the case of asymptomatic cases -- has significant potential in helping to curb the spread of COVID-10, but implementing such would have its challenges.

Lyft is planning a significant expansion of its autonomous car testing program. The company is opening a new testing facility, adding vehicles to its fleet, and racking up more test miles. Like rival Uber, Lyft believes self-driving cars are the future of ridesharing. Lyft's self-driving cars are now driving four times as many miles per quarter in autonomous mode as they were six months ago, Luc Vincent, Lyft's executive vice president of autonomous driving, wrote in a blog post. The company currently gives rides in test vehicles to employees, and the number of routes where these rides are available has tripled in the past year, Vincent wrote.

See how self-driving cars prepare for the real world inside a private testing facility owned by Google's autonomous car company, Waymo. The Navya passenger shuttle is among myriad autonomous vehicles worldwide in various stages of development. And at an event Nov. 17 and 18 on the University of Wisconsin Madison College of Engineering campus, visitors will have the opportunity to check it out. The Taiwan-based electronic manufacturer's plans to use driverless vehicles to move thousands of workers a day at its 22 million-square-foot campus about 30 miles south of Milwaukee could pave new ground for the technology, which promises to reshape transportation in this country. More than a dozen states are scrambling to get ready for self-driving cars, and while major companies from Google to General Motors are testing such cars, few are in use yet.

Google has revealed the self driving minivans it hopes could revolutionise the way we travel. At a closely guarded'fake town' testing facility called The Castle located 120 miles southeast of San Francisco, it showed where its cars complete their equivalent of driver's education. The tour included giving more than three dozen reporters rides in Chrysler Pacifica minivans traveling through faux neighborhoods and expressways that Waymo has built on a former Air Force located in the Californian Central Valley city of Atwater. Google has revealed the self driving minivans it hopes could revolutionise the way we travel. At a closely guarded'fake town' testing facility called The Castle located 120 miles southeast of San Francisco, it showed where its cars complete their equivalent of driver's education Waymo, hatched from a Google project started eight years ago, showed off its progress Monday during a rare peek at its secret test facility.

The ex-bomber plant and home of Rosie the Riveter will transform this year into an autonomous vehicle technology test site. It once housed one of the largest factories in the world, pumping out B24 bombers to help America and her allies win World War II, and later transmissions when it was owned by General Motors. It once housed one of the largest factories in the world, pumping out B24 bombers to help America and her allies win World War II, and later transmissions when it was owned by General Motors. The former Willow Run bomber plant in Ypsilanti Township is mostly a memory now, demolished following GM's 2009 bankruptcy, except for a piece that houses the Yankee Air Museum. Land at the former 335-acre Willow Run site in Ypsilanti Township where the American Center for Mobility is located on in January 2017 that will be used for testing autonomous vehicles.

A vial of blood is small, fragile, and vital. In the days and weeks following an earthquake, or in the early stages of an epidemic, a sample of blood, properly tested, can save lives. That of the patient and, if a disease is noticed and handled before it spreads, that of many others. Drones, from ship to shore and then shore back to ship, may be the answer. Later this month, drone delivery service Flirtey, in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine pathologist Dr. Timothy Amukele, plans to test ship-to-shore drone delivery in Cape May, New Jersey, on June 23rd.