- https://mashable.com/article/jaguar-land-rover-self-driving-car-eyes/

Jaguar puts eyes on autonomous vehicles

If you ask me it looks creepy

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Research from the AAA has showed that a total of 73% of Americans don't trust autonomous vehicles. But Jaguar Land Rover Future Mobility division has a simple solution to this. They have decided to add "eyes" to their cars.

They have been designed to act and move like human eyes, and work with LiDAR and cameras. The actual idea is that the eyes follow the moving object in front of them or passing by. They communicate with the pedestrians and passing by cars that they can "see" them and know that they are there.

Jaguar tested it by placing it on a series of autonomous cars running through a artificial town in Coventry, England, where they are located. As they drove, scientists measured the reactions of more than 500 pedestrians walking through the town.

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They might look stupid, creepy(especially when they look at you) and a bit odd but the results showed that the digital eyes seemed to help the pedestrians trust the cars more instinctively when they tried to cross the street.

It might be soon that you see all autonomous cars with creepy eyes looking at you while you cross a street or go past them. It's a working process that will develop soon into better technology as it goes along.

What's your opinion?

What do you think of this idea that they came up with? Let me know in the comments below of what you thought about it.

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Comments (64)

  • Pixar had this idea ages ago...

    They even made a movie about it.

    I dunno about y'all but I think Pixar's idea looks a lot better...

      3 years ago
  • A very British "after you" or "excuse me" or even "sorry" would be amazing! All with James May's " voice of course!!

      3 years ago
  • Looks like diesel from Thomas the tank engine. Also has a hitler mustache

      3 years ago
  • I don't get autonomous cars

    For me, having a car is all about the pleasure of driving it.

    If I want to get to a destination without doing it myself, I would use public transport, or I don't know, CALL A TAXI (or uber)

    In conclusion, I want the mid-engine supercar from jaaaaag, not a high-tech Toyota IQ looking car with googly eyes

      3 years ago
    • it isn’t actually a Jaguar, it’s been developed by JLR (Jaguar Land Rover)

        3 years ago
    • I know, I'm just joking about the size of the autonomous car

        3 years ago
  • What happens with the 'eyes' then when there is a pedestrian to the left and to the right? Does one eye point left and one right, cross-eyed? Then what happens if the two pedestrians cross in front of the car, do the same eyes follow the same pedestrian? Creepy!

      3 years ago
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