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Jaguar Land Rover To Test Autonomous Cars In 'Living Lab' (thestack.com)
An anonymous reader writes: British automaker Jaguar Land Rover has announced its £5.5 million investment in a 'living lab' for the testing and development of connected and self-driving car technologies. The UK Connected Intelligent Transport Environment (CITE) will span 41-miles of public roads around Coventry and Solihull, and will be used to test new connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV) systems in real-life conditions. The company is planning to install roadside sensor equipment around the lab route to monitor vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications. The fleet will include 100 CAV cars, which will test four different connectivity technologies; 4G long-term evolution (LTE) and its more advanced version LTE-V, dedicated short-range communication (DSRC), and local Wi-Fi hotspots.
So, does that mean a foot of snow on the ground, at night, with no pre-entry of the route?
Great minds think alike; fools seldom differ.
At least they're close by to the factory so when they break down every 2 days they can get back on the road quickly! (I had an LR4 which was an awesome machine when, for the 1 month of 12 that I had it, there wasn't some problem with it!).
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They're designing a car that needs internet connectivity? This could bring a whole new meaning to the phrase "Dead Zone".
WTF
If rebooting my rack causes car wrecks around the corner you may be doing it wrong!
Why don't they do their R&D around the parent companies headquarters? Let a bunch of autonomous Land Rovers loose in Mumbai and watch the antics ensue.
Have gnu, will travel.
"British automaker Jaguar Land Rover..."
Not quite. _Indian_ Automaker Tata, who owns Jaguar Land Rover ...
They are no more British than Rolls Royce, Mini or Bentley which are all German-owned.
And all of them will move to the continent after the Brexit.
I was wondering when someone would have actually done something like this.
As in, actually monitor real-life conditions on the road since they vary MASSIVELY from what is road-legal.
Practically every local area in existence has their own little weird road quirks done by the community themselves. (or at least people that frequently use the road)
Yes, even illegal manoeuvres. So many people break the law of the roads without even realising it, since they never come up in driving tests or theory tests, or it was before their time and they've never been retested.
In fact, I am sure even Google recently made a post about this saying that their cars were more likely to cause accidents BECAUSE people don't obey the law.
They'd have to program law-breaking code in to their engine to be reliably save on the roads.
If they were to put these sorts of sensors up, anonymously, everywhere, they'd see the immense amount of law-breaking happening.
Yet, barely any of it increases the chance of accidents. In fact, many of them lower the chance considerably.
It is the people that obey the law to the letter that end up CAUSING most accidents, besides the usual drunk morons, illness, tiredness, phone users etc.
It even includes speed-related issues as well. Roads without overly restrictive speeds have stupidly lower accidents. There is barely any differences with lane switching or road design to account for that fact, or anything else in their road laws in those respective countries.
tl;dr everyone already breaks the law, get rid of most of it, it saves nobody and provably causes more accidents.
I wonder what changed in the last 6 months.
How do they emulate drunk pedestrians?
Table-ized A.I.
My LR defender drives pretty much where it feels like with only limited response to driver input from controls like steering wheel, brakes, accelerator. Seems they are half way there.