UK Autodrive in the news

Coventry-based RDM Group had a surprise visitor to their display earlier today at celebrations held to mark the 50th birthday of Milton Keynes. The Duke of Cambridge made a beeline to the firm’s driverless Pod that will shortly be commencing trials on the streets of the town as part of the UK Autodrive initiative into testing ‘first and last mile transport solutions’.

A month on from the UK Government publishing its guidelines for cyber security in driverless vehicles, Gowling WLG is calling for more regulation and collaboration on this issue within the connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV) market.

Connected or driverless car security is an issue that needs more regulation, and more collaboration between governments and manufacturers.

According to a survey of 2,850 UK residents carried out as part of the UK Autodrive programme, the public is highly familiar with the concept of driverless cars, but have not yet formed solid opinions about the technology.

UK Autodrive – a three-year project under which the use of connected and self-driving vehicles is being trialled on the streets of Milton Keynes and Coventry – has passed a major development milestone with project partners Ford, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) and Tata Motors European Technical Centre (TMETC) completing final proving ground trials of their connected car technologies. The three partners are now ready to begin testing later this year on public roads.

The UK’s largest collaborative trial of connected and autonomous vehicle technology has been given the green light to move out onto city streets, after the UK Autodrive consortium successfully completed its final set of private test track demonstrations.

The UK's biggest collaborative trial of driverless and connected cars has been given the green light to move out onto city streets. The £20 million UK Autodrive research and development consortium - jointly funded by government and industry - was today marking its final private test track demonstrations at the HORIBA MIRA proving ground.

Jaguar Land Rover is to being trials of self-driving cars on the streets of Coventry and Milton Keynes by the end of this year after reaching a key milestone it is autonomous vehicle research.