Jaguar Land Rover reveal more details of their Autonomous tech ahead of real-world trials

Jaguar Land Rover has revealed details of their Roadwork Assist and Safe Pullaway technology as real world trials of autonomous technology nears.

Back in February we revealed that Jaguar Land Rover are planning autonomous driving trials on 41 miles of road near Coventry, dubbed the ‘Living Laboratory’, with up to 100 cars pounding around in the coming years to develop the technology that will eventually take control of our cars for much of the time.

Now JLR tell us these trials will start later this year (didn’t  we know that already?), and have outlined some of the new features they’re playing with and hoping to make production-ready, as well as making and effort to put autonomous technology in to a JLR perspective.

That means support from the Autonomous technology when the driver wants it – for example, when negotiating mile after mile of speed-restricted roadworks or rush hour traffic – but working seamlessly in the background to keep the driver safe when they’re enjoying driving their car on a fast-flowing open road.

JLR Roadwork Assist

One of the new technologies JLR will be trialling is Roadwork Assist, a technology using a camera to map the road ahead in 3D to recognise cones and barrier which will then sense the start of roadworks and navigate the car through contraflows and cones and keep the car central in the narrower coned lanes.

Safe Pullaway

Safe Pullaway sounds like a low-speed collision mitigation system, with JLR saying it’s designed to mitigate and prevent collisions where the driver gets too close to the car in front, or where they might hit a wall, garage door or parked cars at low speed.

Safe Pullaway uses a camera to monitor the area in front of the car and if there’s an obstacle, and the driver has the car in drive and is using the throttle, it will brake the car and beep a warning.

Other stuff like ‘Over the Horizon Warning’ and ‘Emergency Vehicle Warning’ – which we outlined back in February – will also be on used during the trials, which are expected to last four years and involve more than 100 vehicles.

JLR  Roadwork and Safe Pullaway Video