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Driverless electric pod car cruises Westside during Conservative Party conference – Westside BID

A driverless electric pod car made its first journey in the West Midlands this week by cruising along Broad Street during the Conservative Party Conference. The Aurrigo PodZero arrived in Birmingham to give both conference visitors and the general public a chance to experience the future of transport.

Driverless car technology: En route to real-world autonomy

An ambitious real-world trial on the streets of Coventry and Milton Keynes is helping to put the UK at the forefront of driverless and connected car technology. Jon Excell reports. The driver of the car stuck in front of us is getting angry. If only we’d acknowledged his subtle blend of hand-gestures and nods, done […]

How the UK automotive industry is looking to the Japanese market

Within hours of arriving in Japan for the first time, Dr Richard Fairchild said he knew instinctively that it was the perfect place for Aurrigo PodZero autonomous vehicles-a conclusion supported by the amount of attention that his Union Jack-emblazoned pod attracted in the UK Pavilion during the recent 2018 Automotive Engineering…

Driverless car ‘with eyes’ trialled for safe pedestrian interaction

A driverless car with ‘eyes’ is being trialled by one of the world’s most famous car manufacturers. The concept by the Jaguar Land Rover Future Mobility Division is designed to help interaction with pedestrians and other road users in a world without human drivers.

Jaguar Land Rover gives self-driving cars googly eyes to put pedestrians at ease

Pedestrians and cyclists struggle to trust self-driving cars, but Jaguar Land Rover believes it may have a solution: ‘virtual eyes’ that stare at fellow road users, letting them know they’ve been seen.

Virtual eyes to boost self-driving vehicle safety

Aurrigo has joined forces with Jaguar Land Rover to fit ‘virtual eyes’ to its autonomous pods to understand how humans will trust self-driving vehicles. The friendly-faced ‘eye pods’ have a vital job: helping work out how much information future self-driving cars should share with users or pedestrians to ensure that people trust the technology.

Driverless car keeps a close eye on pedestrians

Self-driving cars will make “eye contact” with pedestrians to give people more confidence to cross roads.Jaguar Land Rover has fitted virtual eyes to driverless pods in a trial to boost trust in the vehicles, which two thirds of pedestrians fear may be less safe.

JLR testing trust in autonomous cars with googly eyed pods

Jaguar Land Rover has enlisted the help of some unconventional looking new employees – googly eyed autonomous pods, which are being used to gauge how pedestrians behave around autonomous vehicles. The funny looking eyes are actually a vital component of the pods, as determining how much information autonomous cars should share with human pedestrians is the key goal of the study.