Jaguar Land Rover reveals off-road autonomous driving technology

Jaguar Land Rover is working on a raft of technology that could enable its future production cars to drive autonomously off-road as well as on-road. The research project aims to make JLR's self-driving cars viable in a wide range of on- and off-road driving environments and conditions. To enable autonomous all-terrain capability, JLR is working on new sensing technologies to provide the high levels of artificial intelligence required for the car to plan the route it should take. New surface identification and 3D path sensing systems use camera, ultrasonic, radar and lidar sensors to give the car a 360-degree view of the world around it. JLR says the combined power of the sensors is so advanced that the car could determine road surface characteristics, down to the width of a tyre, even in rain and falling snow, to plan its route.