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Automotive Press Association Design Panel says autonomous cars will tear up design rulebook [w/Video]

Fully autonomous cars will challenge everything we know about car design to date, according to industry experts at the Michelin Challenge Design-hosted Automotive Press Association (APA) Design Panel. The APA members-only event, held at the Detroit Athletic Club, carried the theme of 'Driven/Undriven: The Duality of Tomorrow's Automobile' – the subject of this year's Michelin Challenge Design – and explored the design challenges and opportunities that will arise with the advent of autonomous vehicles. The APA Design Panel consisted of Jim Hall of 2953 Analytics, Chris Borroni-Bird, vice president of Strategic Development at Qualcomm and author of Reinventing the Automobile: Personal Urban Mobility of the 21st Century as well as Stewart Reed, chair of the Transportation Design course at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.

Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV launches spring 2014 in UK – & is congestion charge free

Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV launches spring 2014 in UK By the time the Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV starts to arrive in the UK in spring 2014, it will be two years since it was revealed. Mitsubishi had promised the Outlander PHEV would start to arrive in 2013, and they’ve managed to stick to theat, just, by announcing the start of production of the plug-in Outlander for Europe last month. But the UK has to wait intil 2014.

Vehicle dependability surged in 2009, J.D. Power survey finds

In the depths of the Great Recession that threatened their existence, automakers built better vehicles. A lot better. The improvement in dependability of three-year-old 2009 vehicles from the year before was one of the biggest ever measured in the J.D.