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Sunday, 25 November 2018

BBC News

• West Midlands driverless cars project wins £19m boostMore motorways and rural roads are to be used to test the latest generation of driverless cars.

Times Online

• Fuel riots light fire under Emmanuel Macron {subscription]Clouds of tear gas and palls of black smoke hung over the Champs-Elysées last night as demonstrators clashed with riot police in the culmination of a week of protests over the cost of diesel that has turned into the most serious challenge yet faced by President Emmanuel Macron.
• Scots won’t be ready for electric car surge, warns energy operator Spen [Subscription]The take-up of electric vehicles will accelerate much faster than governments and policy-makers have forecast, according to a Scottish energy operator that warns investment in infrastructure to meet increased demand for power is urgently needed.
• Your three-minute digest [Subscription}1 Goods bought online will be transported into cities through pipes similar to those used by utility companies in as little as three years, under plans to remove polluting HGVs from the road. Experts backed by Ocado, the online grocer, are working on the development of an initial 52-mile network of pipes stretching from northwest London to Hertfordshire and on to Milton Keynes.