Jaguar Range Rover was recently in news for conducting tests for the autonomous Range Rover Sport. The car was tested at the Horiba Mira Proving Ground in the U.K. The testing vehicle has adopted to the level 4 of autonomous driving and is said to be capable for driving itself automatically even in the city roads. The company is still working on the prototype and the technology and will prove to be offering one of the best autonomous technologies in the world.
To achieve to the 4th level of automation the vehicle should have the ability to drive itself in environments like city or highways and that too without any human interference. To that end, the autonomous Range Rover Sport is equipped with technology allowing it to navigate through roundabouts, obey traffic lights, and perform other essential city driving duties by itself.
What the passenger needs to do is to select the location in the navigator and sit back and relax, the vehicle will automatically drive them to the desired locations.
JLR’s autonomous Range Rover is part of a government- and industry-backed UK Autodrive research project that aims to bring autonomous vehicles to the U.K. JLR along with Ford and Tata Motors European Technical Centre are working together for the successful completion of the project.
Using this type of technology, the cars will not only be able to communicate with the other cars on the road but will also be able to communicate with the infrastructure like the bumps and the traffic lights.
Moving forward, JLR envisions building both fully and semi-autonomous vehicles so customers have a variety of choices. “We aren’t looking at simply replacing the driver, and making cars ‘driverless.’ Future technologies will give the driver more not less – they will assist and ultimately enhance the driving experience,” JLR Director of Engineering Research Tony Harper said in a statement.
There are six levels of autonomy as defined by SAE. Level 0 indicates the driver is the sole operator of the vehicle, while Level 5 signals the vehicle can drive itself in all situations without the need for a human.
