UK Autodrive shows how autonomous driving works, with traffic light detection, controlling speed and stop junctions, as they test Range Rover Sport at the Horiba Mira testing ground in Nuneaton.
UK Autodrive has been approved to take its trials of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) onto public roads. The collaboration, involving Jaguar Land Rover, Ford, and Tata Motors, is the largest of its kind, and will head on to the streets of Milton Keynes and Coventry.
Ford will this week demonstrate its Emergency Vehicle Warning technology at the UK Autodrive event, a £20 million government-sponsored trial of connected cars supported by 16 technology and automotive businesses, local authorities and academic institutions.
Drivers will soon receive a dashboard warning of an approaching emergency vehicle in a bid to aid response times. The technology was displayed as part of a government-backed autonomous driving technology project called UK Autodrive.
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.
The boss of an insurance giant has warned that the sector will soon be completely disrupted by self-driving cars, with those born this year likely to never need a driving lesson. Research is so fast-moving that self-driving vehicles could hit the roads within 15 years, Axa UK's chief executive Amanda Blanc has predicted, meaning "babies born today may never have to take a driving test."
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