autonomous vehicles: the driverless fleet of the future?

Intelligent vehicles that make decisions

without driver input are being tested

around the world

£10Million

saying it is currently their top selling point

Up to

15%

Maps need to become ultra detailed, so that cars are able to effectively navigate by themselves

MOST MANUFACTURERS AND ANALYSTS PREDICT THAT FULLY AUTONOMOUS CARS WILL NOT BE DRIVING ON OUR ROADS UNTIL 2020, AT THE EARLIEST.

THE NEXT STEP IN VEHICLE

INTELLIGENCE

The government has pledged

for a UK city to es-tablish itself as the country’s first test-ing area for driver-

less cars

Current prices range from £120,000 to £170,000 per vehicle

Cars still need a human driver ready in case something goes wrong, due to the current legislation

Until every car on the road is autonomous, there are still safety risks

Motorway speed limits might need to be reduced and overtaking rules for ordinary motorists changed

Barriers to adoption

What are the benefits?

AEBS could lead to

27% fewer accidents

to

in 2020

which means

8,000fewer road

deaths per year

What could more ubiquitous connectivity in cars mean?

Instant transfer of driving data could lead to real time insurance, calculated based on how you were driving around the time of a collision

New sensor-based collision detection features that prevent accidents automatically, in the form of Advanced Emergency Braking Systems (AEBS), are already mandatory in new heavy vehicles

Cars could eventually communicate this data to each other and work together to provide even more effective collision prevention

Information about road conditions and delays can be passed between cars, further improving the accuracy of network intelligence, cutting insurance costs and time lost in traffic

A single vehicle could steer many others in a ‘car train’, with a single human driver to take over in an emergency, with safe distances between vehicles reduced to as little as five metres

over

500,000miles

Some driverless vehicles have

recorded

of safe tests drives on US

roads

200km single trips

‘Car trains’ have been tested on

on roads in Spain

lower fuel consumptiondue to autonomous

driving