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New national initiative educates public on automated vehicles (AVs)

Wed, 21 Feb 2024 14:54:00 GMT

Today, WMG at The University of Warwick, launches the Partners for Automated Vehicle Education United Kingdom (PAVE UK) with the Department for Business and Trade, the Department for Transport, the Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV), and Transport for West Midlands, as its founding partners.

How road rage really affects your driving – and the self-driving cars of the future

Tue, 11 Apr 2023 14:03:00 GMT

New research by the University of Warwick has identified characteristics of aggressive driving – which impact both road users and the transition to self-driving cars of the future.

New research led by the University of Warwick proposes a cross-domain safety assurance framework for automated transport

Fri, 24 Mar 2023 14:49:24 GMT

A new report led by academics at Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG), University of Warwick, proposes a ground-breaking safety assurance framework that has the potential to be applied across automated transport modes.

New technology revolutionises motorway merging for autonomous cars

Tue, 22 Nov 2022 08:44:23 GMT

Improved technology will soon allow self-driving cars to merge onto motorways and highways with better safety, thanks to new research.

Researchers develop technology solutions to enhance the safety and efficiency of connected and autonomous vehicles in complex road junctions

Wed, 08 Jun 2022 13:23:50 GMT

Researchers at WMG, University of Warwick have developed technology solutions for safer and more efficient automated driving when navigating complex road junctions such as roundabouts.

New report outlines the need for cross domain transport safety standards

Fri, 01 Apr 2022 10:49:12 GMT

A new report launched by Dr Siddartha Khastgir of WMG calls for a codified set of rules to define safe and acceptable behaviour for automated transport systems as well as a scalable safety assurance framework.

Autonomous vehicle safety standard concept enables tests needed to be road ready

Tue, 01 Feb 2022 09:43:00 GMT

An Operational Design Domain (ODD) is fundamental to Connected Autonomous Vehicle safety, however defining an ODD hasn’t been done before, until now, thanks to the work undertaken by German standardisation body ASAM and led researchers from WMG, University of Warwick.

WMG academic joins Department for Transport’s Science Advisory Council

Fri, 14 Jan 2022 11:47:50 GMT

Dr Siddartha Khastgir from WMG, University of Warwick, has been appointed to be on the DfT’s Science Advisory Council, where he will advise on a wide range of science and engineering issues, such as enrolment of Autonomous Vehicles.

Joint European effort boosts automated driving

Tue, 12 Oct 2021 12:16:27 GMT

From 11 to 15 October the European research project L3Pilot, which WMG at the University of Warwick have worked on led by Volkswagen AG and co-funded by the European Commission, showcases automated driving functions in the City of Hamburg and on motorways nearby. The four-year project will now come to its successful end with performing its Final Event in conjunction with the ITS World Congress in Hamburg 2021.

China welcomes world’s largest scenario database for autonomous vehicle safety

Thu, 09 Sep 2021 12:59:32 GMT

The Safety Pool^TM Scenario Database, the largest public repository of scenarios for testing autonomous vehicles in the world — led by WMG at the University of Warwick and Deepen AI —will now be used in China, thanks to a new partnership with Automotive Data of China, a subsidiary of the China Automotive Technology and Research Center (CATARC).