Jaguar Land Rover has undertaken the motherland’s first road tests for autonomous and connected vehicles bringing the technology of the future closer to today.
Undertaken as part of the UK Autodrive project, a variety of new technologies designed to allow cars to communicate with each other as well as various infrastructure including traffic lights underwent trials. The aim was to determine if and how autonomous vehicle could replicate human behaviour and reaction when controlling a vehicle.
Both fully and semi-autonomous technology is currently being developed with Jaguar Land Rover striving for a self-driving car which will be capable of performing in the real world both on- and off-road in any weather.
Jaguar Land Rover’s Executive Director-Product Engineering, Nick Rogers, commented, "Testing this self-driving project on public roads is so exciting, as the complexity of the environment allows us to find robust ways to increase road safety in the future. By using inputs from multiple sensors, and finding intelligent ways to process this data, we are gaining accurate technical insight to pioneer the automotive application of these technologies.
Jaguar Land Rover is proud to be a leader in collaborative research projects for autonomous and connected cars. We are supporting innovative research that will be integral to the infrastructure, technology and legal landscape needed to make intelligent, self-driving vehicles a reality within the next decade."
Coventry, in the United Kingdom, was just one of 12 cities where this unique testing has been rolled out on public roads globally.
UK Autodrive is the largest program from the three which have been launched to assist with the introduction of autonomous vehicles onto the public streets in the United Kingdom. Already testing on a closed track environment has proven successful. The testing will continue into next year taking us all a step closer to self-driving vehicles being an everyday reality.
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