UK Autodrive in the news

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.

Trying to locate the source of a siren when you are behind the wheel can be stressful. Worse, it can delay the progress of an emergency vehicle if you do not quickly and safely move out of the way.

A dashboard signal which warns motorists of nearby emergency vehicles is to become a reality, thanks to a government-backed initiative.

A demonstration of driverless cars in Nuneaton will be followed later this year by trials on public roads. Autodrive - a collaboration between Jaguar Land Rover, Ford and Tata Motors - showed off how autonomous cars can talk to each other. It included warning drivers when an emergency vehicle was approaching and offering real-time traffic information.