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Toyota is spending $50 million on a pair of research centers that will develop technology for self-driving cars. It's a joint project between the Japanese automaker and two U.S. colleges, Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chinese search giant Baidu has entered into a partnership with BMW to jointly research driverless car technologies, with the goal of developing a semi-autonomous vehicle in three years. On Tuesday, Baidu signed a joint research contract with BMW that will Apple's "Project Titan", its secretive and much-rumored electric car project, may involve a campus leased by Apple last year that is located in Sunnyvale, California, just a few minutes from the company's main 1 Infinite Loop campus in Cupertino, reports The average discount dealers are giving customers is shrinking during the sales boom. That’s the result of research carried out by What Car? which found that year on year the average discount on new cars in May had shrunk 7.9% to £2,360. Consumers on Image: Transport Systems Catapult Self-driving LUTZ Pathfinder pods for footpaths will be among the vehicles tested. British efforts aimed at developing self-driving cars are likely to project run by the Transport Research Laboratory, General Motors Ford Motor Co. is hoping foster innovation by opening a research center in Silicon Valley that is devoted to development for the connected car and autonomous car. The center, which will be based in Palo Alto, Calif., will focus on the convergence of the .

Toyota has just announced a collaborative partnership with both MIT and Stanford, which will see the carmaker investing $50 million across five years into autonomous vehicle research centers at both universities. The first goal is to make driving safer After pouring billions of dollars of federal money into fuel cell car research over decades, the US Department of Energy is cutting back on future spending. In the 2010 budget that the administration is submitting to Congress, Energy Secretary Stephen Chu The money is part of the £100m for research into intelligent mobility announced by the Chancellor in the Spring 2015 Budget. The government hopes that the measures – announced by business secretary Sajid Javid and transport minister Andrew Jones The future of fuel-efficient cars looks a little brighter after a round of grants that the Department of Energy will be providing $55 million to universities, research laboratories, and companies to find new ways for vehicles — both plug-in electric .