Jaguar and Land Rover have come up with a new concept technology that would instill greater confidence in people in autonomous vehicles. The project was called 'virtual eyes', and autonomous 'cabins' were equipped with them.
Jaguar and Country Rover they try bring closer mobile future wider to the crowd people. For this purpose, they came up with the so-called 'virtual eyes', with which they want to arouse more in people of trust into upcoming technology. The eyes have a rather sad look, 'programmed' but they are so, yes establish eye contact with pedestrians. This lets them know that they were observed and that he drove them detected. LED-the eyes follow the movement of the pedestrian as he crosses the crosswalk.
By having the virtual eyes 'look' directly at the pedestrian, he they signal, to be driven by him noticed and that, if necessary, it will do everything to avoid it, should it be necessary. The virtual eyes were conceived by engineers from Jaguar and Land Rover's future mobility department. With a test they are confirmed, that there was trust in the autonomy of the cabins with eyes significantly bigger, and pedestrians stepped further in front of them confidently.
Image gallery: Jaguar Land Rover Virtual Eyes
