Press & Media

News, announcements and coverage of EVIE Autonomous — from the acquisition of Westfield Pods and our autonomous technology partnerships to the trials and projects our vehicles have taken part in.

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20 March 20222 min read

Lake District looks to the future with ‘driverless’ vehicles

A driverless pod comes to Brockhole on Windermere for public feedback, as the Lake District becomes the first National Park and UNESCO World Heritage Site to study self-driving vehicles as a sustainable way to travel.

11 September 20211 min read

What happens when you put your mum in a driverless car?

Sky News' Joe Tidy takes his mother Karen — by her own account a reluctant user of technology — for a ride in a GATEway shuttle pod. It closes two years of an £8m government-backed study into public attitudes to autonomous vehicles.

14 June 20211 min read

Pods

Lord Sugar arrives at Here East in a driverless POD rather than his usual limo, and sets the candidates the task of designing, branding and pitching an electric driverless pod of their own. Episode 7 of 14.

2 November 20201 min read

Helen Sharman OBE in the Westfield POD

First British astronaut and first woman to visit the Mir space station in 1991, Helen Sharman OBE took a ride in the POD recently.