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Jaguar Land Rover To Test Autonomous Cars In 'Living Lab' (thestack.com)

Posted by timothy on from the good-setting-for-a-horror-movie dept.

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.

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  1. Real Life? by Mikkeles · · Score: 2

    So, does that mean a foot of snow on the ground, at night, with no pre-entry of the route?

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    1. Re:Real Life? by tehcyder · · Score: 2

      Because real life in the UK doesn't involve a foot of snow on the ground.

      Or orthodontia.

      Or weekly mass school shootings.

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  2. At least they're close.. by RdeCourtney · · Score: 2

    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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