The UK Government's £100m Intelligent Mobility Fund, which provides support for research into autonomous vehicles, has awarded eight research projects worth a total of £20m, to pioneer the development of connected vehicles and "talking car technologies." The projects range from focusing on improved accessibility for disabled and visually-impaired people to schemes to predict safety risks around driver-less cars based on analytics. One of the largest projects to receive funding brings together Jaguar Land Rover, Bosch and others to determine how real drivers react in traffic; "Understanding how drivers react to a range of very dynamic and random situations in the real world is essential if we want drivers to embrace autonomous cars in the future," said the director of research and technology at Bosch.
The UK Government's £100m Intelligent Mobility Fund, which provides support for research into autonomous vehicles, has awarded eight research projects worth a total of £20m, to pioneer the development of connected vehicles and "talking car technologies." The projects range from focusing on improved accessibility for disabled and visually-impaired people to schemes to predict safety risks around driver-less cars based on analytics. One of the largest projects to receive funding brings together Bosch, Jaguar Land Rover and others to determine how real drivers react in traffic; "Understanding how drivers react to a range of very dynamic and random situations in the real world is essential if we want drivers to embrace autonomous cars in the future," said the director of research and technology at Jaguar Land Rover.