Einride driverless heavy freight EV sets Top Gear record

Driverless electric HGV is first of its type to do lap on TV show track

A driver is to be hired in March by Swedish technology firm Einride – but he or she will not be required to sit behind a wheel.

Google has begun discussions with most of the world's top automakers and has assembled a team of traditional and non-traditional suppliers to speed up efforts to bring self-driving cars to market by 2020, a top Google executive has said. Those manufacturers are said to include General Motors, Ford Motor, Toyota, Daimler and Volkswagen. "We'd be remiss not to talk to ... the biggest auto manufacturers. They've got a lot to offer," Chris Urmson, director of Google's self-driving car project, said in an