Future: beams create safety
ATTENTION PEDESTRIANS Jaguar Land Rover has developed a new system that enables pedestrians to react better and faster to self-driving vehicles and thus move around more safely. Digital bars projected onto the road indicate to pedestrians whether the autonomous driving model is about to stop next, drive off, or turn left or right. The distances between the [...]
Digital bars projected onto the road indicate to passersby whether the autonomously driving model will next stop, start driving, or turn left or right. The distances between the horizontal bars are variable - they become narrower and narrower during a braking maneuver, only to contract almost completely when the vehicle stops. When accelerating again, they widen again, and before turning, they fan out in the selected direction of travel.
Contact with autonomous driving car
The research project was created as part of the government-funded UK Autodrive consortium to test autonomous vehicles. It follows on from a series of tests in 2018 in which virtual eyes on the front of the Aurrigo pod create contact between cars and pedestrians. Studies have found that about 40 percent of pedestrians and cyclists feel less safe when they have to share the road with au tonomous vehicles.
