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Friday, 26 August 2016

BBC News

• Uber adds advance bookings in LondonTransport app Uber allows customers in London to book journeys up to 30 days in advance.
• Self-driving taxi trial kicks off in SingaporeAs the industry races to make driverless cars viable, a small fleet of computer-driven taxis are taking passengers in Singapore.

London Evening Standard

• Uber now lets passengers book a ride one month in advanceTaxi app Uber will today start letting passengers book their ride up to a month in advance.

Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport

• Custom-built Volvo truck named world’s fastestVolvo’s 2,367bhp Iron Knight has been named the world’s fastest truck. Driven by Swedish truck racing ace Boije Overbrink, the 4.5-tonne Iron Knight set new official speed records in the standing-start 500- and 1000-metre categories at a closed test track in northern Sweden. The lightning-quick truck covered 500 meters in 13.71 seconds, and 1,000 metres in 21.29 seconds, with an average speed of 81mph and 105mph respectively. At its fastest, the truck reached 171mph. Everything apart from the truck’s powertrain had been hand-built from the ground up, revealed Volvo Trucks technician Olof Johan...
• Two-thirds of UK businesses now using telematicsAlmost twice as many UK businesses are using telematics to keep tabs on how their company vehicles are being used, compared to last year. Close to two-thirds (65 per cent) of the 500 UK businesses surveyed by the RAC in May said they now use telematics devices - including black box and smartphone apps - in their vehicles. This marked a significant uplift on the 38 per cent from when the survey was last conducted in September 2015. Looking at individual sectors, business services reported the highest uptake in those nine months (70 per cent), followed by retail and construction (67 and 66 per c...