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Saturday, 15 September 2018

BBC News

• Salford scientists show how cars could power your homeThe electric cars with stored power that could be transferred to a dwelling.
• New £460k trial to cut lorry numbers in LondonSix business groups will take part in a £460k scheme to reduce the number of heavy vehicles.

Mail Online

• Family who lost three children in horror crash urge all motorists to watch harrowing footage of lorry driver using his phone behind the wheel before ploughing into their carThe family of a mother and her three children killed by a lorry driver changing the music on his phone want motorists to witness the seconds before their death.

Other Regional Press

• Roadwork plans could cause delays to your journeyResurfacing work will mean overnight closures on a major road.
• Traffic police go back to school for road safety education in CornwallIt will be back to school for Highways England traffic officers next week as they visit pupils living alongside the A30 in Cornwall to hand out a few road safety lessons.
• Westgate parking decision was a 'double-whammy of failures' LIBERAL Democrat and Green city councillors in Oxford have renewed criticism of council leaders over a loss of car parking revenue.

Other News Sources

• Daimler and Bosch jointly premiere Automated Valet Parking in China Daimler and Bosch have announced the successful premiere of their joint Automated Valet Parking pilot in Beijing. The technology, which debuted in the parking garage at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart in 2017, symbolizes a pioneering effort in infrastructure-supported driverless parking and marks the first pilot of its kind in China. Automated Valet Parking, to the extent legally allowed where used, enables vehicles to proceed to an assigned space and for the user to retrieve the vehicle via their smartphone. This will undergo further testing by Daimler and Bosch at the Mercedes-Benz Re...