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Jaguar Land Rover has announced two investments in the field of autonomous cars, in spite of the fact that it recently stated it would refrain from launching this technology until it matures.
This story about the future of Jaguar Land Rover’s autonomous cars was inspired from two apparently unlinked press releases from the British brand.
The company has announced it will evaluate a specialized car-to-car communication technology in the field and will use a 41-mile “living laboratory” on the roads between Coventry and Solihull.
At the same time, Jaguar Land Rover has announced it will start a research program to help autonomous cars have driver-like reactions.
If we put these press releases together, we can figure out that the British company will invest both in a research program that will analyze the way its employees drive a specially designed fleet of vehicles fitted with special equipment to monitor reactions and behavior and in a fleet of connected autonomous vehicles that will drive between their Coventry and Solihull bases.
Both fleets will gather information and will allow the future autonomous cars made by Jaguar Land Rover to drive like humans, but as safe as all safe-driving vehicles.
As Google’s self-driving fleet has already proved, autonomous cars do not respond to road situations like human-driven cars, and this situation puts those cars at risk.
Jaguar Land Rover is planning on making self-driving cars that will try to think like humans while driving to allow improved reactions and bring a better way of dealing with real-life driving conditions.
The fleet that will drive on the roads between Jaguar Land Rover’s Coventry and Solihull bases will consists of 100 vehicles and is the first of its kind. Five of those cars will feature a car-to-car and “over the horizon” technology.
Other vehicles will monitor roadside infrastructure, including traffic lights, signs, and overhead gantries. All vehicles will generate a shared database, which will be continuously updated to help reduce congestion using intelligent route planning.
The connected car fleet will feature vehicles capable of changing lanes on their own and following the vehicle ahead more closely in a safe manner.
The Jaguar Land Rover fleet traveling between Coventry and Solihull is joined by the UK CITE consortium, which includes companies like Siemens, Vodafone, and Visteon.
The fleet of Jaguar Land Rover vehicles driven by employees with systems that monitor driver reactions and behavior for the benefit of the AI of future autonomous vehicles is part of the MOVE-UK three-year project led by Bosch.
The second fleet will drive in the London Borough of Greenwich. Its purpose is to establish how differently human drivers react to real-world driving situations, including busy junctions, road works, bad weather, and heavy traffic.
An average will be created based on the findings, and its behavior will be implemented in future self-driving vehicles from Jaguar Land Rover.
The company has announced it will evaluate a specialized car-to-car communication technology in the field and will use a 41-mile “living laboratory” on the roads between Coventry and Solihull.
At the same time, Jaguar Land Rover has announced it will start a research program to help autonomous cars have driver-like reactions.
If we put these press releases together, we can figure out that the British company will invest both in a research program that will analyze the way its employees drive a specially designed fleet of vehicles fitted with special equipment to monitor reactions and behavior and in a fleet of connected autonomous vehicles that will drive between their Coventry and Solihull bases.
Both fleets will gather information and will allow the future autonomous cars made by Jaguar Land Rover to drive like humans, but as safe as all safe-driving vehicles.
As Google’s self-driving fleet has already proved, autonomous cars do not respond to road situations like human-driven cars, and this situation puts those cars at risk.
Jaguar Land Rover is planning on making self-driving cars that will try to think like humans while driving to allow improved reactions and bring a better way of dealing with real-life driving conditions.
The fleet that will drive on the roads between Jaguar Land Rover’s Coventry and Solihull bases will consists of 100 vehicles and is the first of its kind. Five of those cars will feature a car-to-car and “over the horizon” technology.
Other vehicles will monitor roadside infrastructure, including traffic lights, signs, and overhead gantries. All vehicles will generate a shared database, which will be continuously updated to help reduce congestion using intelligent route planning.
The connected car fleet will feature vehicles capable of changing lanes on their own and following the vehicle ahead more closely in a safe manner.
The Jaguar Land Rover fleet traveling between Coventry and Solihull is joined by the UK CITE consortium, which includes companies like Siemens, Vodafone, and Visteon.
The fleet of Jaguar Land Rover vehicles driven by employees with systems that monitor driver reactions and behavior for the benefit of the AI of future autonomous vehicles is part of the MOVE-UK three-year project led by Bosch.
The second fleet will drive in the London Borough of Greenwich. Its purpose is to establish how differently human drivers react to real-world driving situations, including busy junctions, road works, bad weather, and heavy traffic.
An average will be created based on the findings, and its behavior will be implemented in future self-driving vehicles from Jaguar Land Rover.
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