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BBC News visits an annual bus competition designed to test handling and fuel efficiency, which helps a UK bus group choose the next generation of vehicles.
Why a third runway at Heathrow would help the UK thrive in a post-Brexit world
We have immense, depressing form when it comes to dithering over airports.
Work set to begin on new rail interchange
The project will include an onside rail freight terminal suitable for 750m freight trains and it will have direct connection into the National Freight Network and will be a three to three and a half year programme in various phases.
Tuesday, 23 August 2016
BBC News
- VW faces production delays amid disputeCarmaker Volkswagen introduces short-time working at six of its plants in Germany amid a dispute with two external suppliers.
- Second-hand car sales hit record level in first halfThe number of second-hand cars sold in the UK has reached its highest level yet with more than four million vehicles sold in the first half of this year.
Financial Times
- Details omitted in Renault emissions reportFears that government might be too lenient because of 20 per cent stake in carmaker
The Guardian
- If the age of self-driving cars is upon us, what's keeping them off the roads?As Google and Uber trial prototypes, the future of fully driverless cars and safer roads should come sooner than anyone thought – but they’re in no mood to rush Sitting in the passenger seat of Google’s self driving car is a less bizarre experience than sitting in the driving seat, but it’s still unsettling. In the streets of Mountain View, outside the headquarters of X (once Google X, in the post-Alphabet age it’s moved out of mum and dad’s house and dropped the prefix), I got the chance to do just that.It’s partly unsettling because it’s hard not to feel a flicker of anxiety when you look ov...
London Evening Standard
- Cab firms tell Uber to accept rules ‘that level playing field’Dozens of London-based minicab firms have called on Uber to abandon its legal challenge to new rules that require some drivers to sit a written English test.
Other Regional Press
- TAXI giant Uber is to launch in NewportThe app-based taxi firm, which uses drivers who use their own vehicles, has been granted an operator’s licence by Newport City Council.
The Business Desk
- Uber set to launch food delivery rivalGROUND-breaking taxi app Uber is set to launch a food delivery service in Manchester, Birmingham and Leeds in direct competition to rival Deliveroo.
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