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Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

Cars That Think

The ship’s captain stopped the engines, and the aircraft flashed its lights at the rubber boat. Frontex , which has in turn issued contracts worth hundreds of millions of euros to major engineering firms for remote border-control hardware, software, and know-how. Athanasios Kapoutsis , an engineering researcher on the team.

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Wanted: Electric MINI test drivers

Green Cars News

Oxford Brookes University’s Sustainable Vehicle Engineering Centre will manage the collation of qualitative and quantitative research throughout the UK project. A further 20 MINI E vehicles will be distributed among the MINI E consortium members for testing in a fleet environment.

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