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The Porsche Taycan has been teased for the second time in as many weeks, this time with a set of actual photos in place of the sketches. In the latest series of artfully shot and camouflaged photos, the sports car maker has been keen to highlight all the similarities between its upcoming electric sedan and the iconic 911 coupe.

Cadillac has revealed the all-new CT5 sedan, which will replace the ageing CTS in the brand's line-up. Scheduled to make its public debut at the New York motor show next month, the CT5 sports a mini-me design drawing upon the larger CT6 – which will be retired at the end of the year – and will compete with the likes of the BMW 3 Series and Mercedes-Benz C-Class.

A designer sketch believed to be of the upcoming Porsche Cayenne Coupe has surfaced online this week, ahead of a full reveal in the coming weeks. Published by Carscoops, the drawing shows a fastback-styled Porsche crossover, that features a sharply raked tailgate and slim tail-light clusters joined through the middle by a plastic strip.

Road safety experts have renewed calls for better assessment of older drivers as the latest figures show deaths involving those aged over 75 have increased by 5.2 per cent over the past five years — more than twice the national average. National figures in the 12 months to February 2019 show older drivers now account for 12 per cent of all fatalities even though they only make up approximately 6 per cent of licence holders.

“[Humans] are the best autonomous systems I know of.” So says Dr Maarten Sierhuis, chief technology director for Nissan, and the man charged with guiding the manufacturer’s autonomous driving technology into the future. But the NASA veteran, who oversaw and designed autonomous technologies for the US space agency, has joined a growing number of voices in believing fully autonomous vehicles may never happen, certainly not in the way they've been touted in recent years.