The race to conquer the driverless car market has stepped up a gear, with the first ever tests of an autonomous vehicle built in Britain on the country's public roads.
Jaguar Land Rover has quietly started testing driverless cars on British roads that are simultaneously being used by the general public, in a clear indication that Britain’s biggest manufacturer is determined the country will play a leading role in the race to develop autonomous vehicles.
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.
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.
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