UK’s First Full-Sized Driverless Passenger Bus Trials Have Begun

On April 25th, tech company Fusion Processing announced that on-road testing for an autonomous public transportation project would begin this week, with a new 14-mile pilot service ferrying passengers across a long-span suspension bridge in Scotland set to launch later this year.

For the CAVForth initiative, which has been in the works since 2020, Fusion Processing has teamed with Transport Scotland, Stagecoach, Alexander Dennis Ltd, Bristol Robotics Laboratory, and Edinburgh Napier University.

The buses are equipped with Fusion Processing’s CAVstar automated drive system, which combines LiDAR, radar, and optical cameras with AI control technologies for Level 4 autonomy in complex traffic scenarios such as highways, junctions, major and minor roads, roundabouts, bus lanes, and traffic lights.

https://www.intelligentliving.co/uks-first-full-sized-driverless-passenger-bus-trials-have-begun/

NASA sends warning as 'strong' solar flare batters Earth – Europe hit with ‘blackouts’

Yesterday, the US space agency spotted the Sun in the process of emitting a strong flare from an active sunspot. NASA’s SDO has been observing the Sun for over a decade and looks at how solar activity is created and how space weather comes from that activity. The observatory recorded an extreme ultraviolet flash from an active sunspot which was emerging over the Sun's southeastern limb.

The NASA statement said: “Solar flares are powerful bursts of energy. Flares and solar eruptions can impact radio communications, electric power grids, and navigation signals, and pose risks to spacecraft and astronauts.

“This flare is classified as an X-class flare.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1605107/nasa-solar-flare-warning-europe-hit-blackouts-space-news