Driverless cars being trialled in London

Software capable of identifying 150 vehicles per second and detecting traffic lights in a fraction of a second

Driverless cars being trialled in London

Five autonomous cars are being trialled in London as part of a £13 million research scheme aimed at combating issues around driverless vehicles.

The revolutionary technology onboard the vehicles is claimed to be faster than the human eye and can identify 150 vehicles per second.

Traffic lights can also be detected in just 1 / 2,000th of a second, offering a major boost for plans to see driverless cars on the market.

The developers say the software can run on everyday computer hardware in desktop PC’s and does not require any sophisticated technology.

AI software

Founder of Oxbotica, the company behind the technology, Paul Newman said: “Even if [humans] could learn from each other like computers can, we can’t share at scale, across vast numbers and we can’ do it all the time.

“That’s what our AI software will do for every host vehicle wherever it is in the world.

“Providing life long shared learning and with in-depth and continually improved knowledge of the local area – allowing out cars to not just read the roads nut to predict common hazards with ever greater sophistication.”

Nissan has also been seen testing its fully autonomous road car technology in London’s docklands.

Trials of the vehicles need to abide by strict safety rules and a human remote driver must be ready to take over control in an emergency.

Oxbotica’s technological breakthrough comes just months after the Department for Transport revealed it wanted self-driving vehicles on UK roads by 2021.

Economy boost

Chiefs say the connected and automated vehicles market could be worth as much as £52 billion to the economy by 2035.

Speaking in February, Transport Minister Jesse Norman said: “Thanks to the UK’s world class research base, this country is in the vanguard of the development of new transport technologies, including automation.

“The government is supporting the safe, transparent trialling of this pioneering technology, which could transform the way we travel.”

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