Researchers from Southampton will be working on a new £11 million research programme to develop fully autonomous cars.
The programme, jointly funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and Jaguar Land Rover, is made up of five new projects, involving ten UK universities and the Transport Research Laboratory.
It was announced on Friday 9 October by Secretary of State for Business, Sajid Javid during a visit to Jaguar Land Rover’s facility at Gaydon in Warwickshire.
The University, in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, will lead the Human Interaction: Designing Autonomy in Vehicles (HI:DAV) project to investigate how drivers will react to new autonomous systems.
Professor Neville Stanton, who is leading the HI:DAV project, says:
“Highly automated vehicles are likely to be on public roads within the next ten years. The largest gap in our understanding of vehicle automation is how drivers will react to this new technology and how best to design the driver-automation interaction.”
Read the full press release here.