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Written by Rowan Horncastle
Us puny humans find it hard to trust robots. Well, apart from WALL-E and R2D2, we like them. But Jaguar Land Rover boffins have identified that nearly half of drivers and pedestrians are worried about a future of sharing the road with self-driving vehicles. Which, given the progress of autonomous vehicles is somewhat of an inevitability, isn"t overly positive news. But to try and ease the public"s anxiety, JLR has been trialling a few options to make the robots seem a bit cuddlier and friendly. You may remember at the end of last year a team of advanced engineers working in Jaguar Land Rover"s Future Mobility division stuck a set of slightly sad googly eyes to the front of an autonomous pod to seek out pedestrians. The pod would then look" directly at them in order to signal to road users that it has identified them and intends to take avoiding action. But now they"ve binned the eyes in favour of a series of lights that project the pod"s direction of travel onto the road ahead (a bit like a Boris Bike at night), to tell other road users what it is going to do next.
Date written: 24 Jan 2019
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 14639
Us puny humans find it hard to trust robots. Well, apart from WALL-E and R2D2, we like them. But Jaguar Land Rover boffins have identified that nearly half of drivers and pedestrians are worried about a future of sharing the road with self-driving vehicles. Which, given the progress of autonomous vehicles is somewhat of an inevitability, isn"t overly positive news. But to try and ease the public"s anxiety, JLR has been trialling a few options to make the robots seem a bit cuddlier and friendly. You may remember at the end of last year a team of advanced engineers working in Jaguar Land Rover"s Future Mobility division stuck a set of slightly sad googly eyes to the front of an autonomous pod to seek out pedestrians. The pod would then look" directly at them in order to signal to road users that it has identified them and intends to take avoiding action. But now they"ve binned the eyes in favour of a series of lights that project the pod"s direction of travel onto the road ahead (a bit like a Boris Bike at night), to tell other road users what it is going to do next.
Date written: 24 Jan 2019
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 14639