Smart cars that have a sense of everything

摘要

Autonomous cars that map their environment, communicate securely with other vehicles and understand and interact with their drivers could one day be a reality. This is the aim of an £11m programme jointly funded by Jaguar Land Rover and EPSRC. It aims to address some of the fundamental challenges on the road to fully autonomous vehicles, including public safety concerns. The research programme includes projects looking into radar and video sensing technologies, distributed control systems and cloud computing. The projects will also look at how drivers react to autonomous vehicles and how the transition between human control and automated systems should best be managed.