A feature on driverless cars produced by the BBC, and filmed in Southampton, is now available to view online.
The report, recorded at the University’s driving simulator at the Boldrewood Innovation Campus, shows BBC Transport Correspondent Richard Westcott participating in a test using the University’s driving simulator. Neville Stanton, Professor of Human Factors in Transport within Engineering and the Environment, also features in the report.
Southampton, in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, is leading the £11m Human Interaction: Designing Autonomy in Vehicles project to investigate how drivers will react to new autonomous systems.
Professor Stanton said:
“The big unknown is how the driver will behave in these situations of handing control over and taking control back and, indeed, what they’ll get up to when the computer is driving the car.”
The report is available via the Business pages of the BBC website and shared via the University’s Facebook and Twitter accounts. BBC News Online has, on average, over 4 million daily visitors to the site and nearly 14.2 million daily page views.
In a second feature broadcast by the BBC, Dr Yi Qiu and the University’s multi-axis simulator in the Human Factors Research Unit also featured on the televised Breakfast programme as part of a week-long series on commuting and the its future. Dr Qiu talked about his research into vibration and the impact on passenger comfort and was able to demonstrate this to the reporter using the simulator.