Cars Jaguar Land Rover received a recognition system of road pits Bashny.Net

British carmaker Jaguar Land Rover has built intelligent recognition speed bumps in their new car models. The system is able to detect holes and other irregularities. The plans - to transmit information about road services and other "smart" vehicles, which, using this information, be able to warn drivers of them as well as automatic driving.



The system and the corresponding sensors are included in the box Range Rover Evoque and Discovery Sport. Now these cars must recognize the pits, bumps, open hatches, repairs and other deviations from the flat surface of the road.

From the rapid progress and development of autonomous driving behind the quality of roads and road services. No matter how hard repairers, an increasing number of vehicles and adverse weather conditions do its job. Robomobili, for example, in the US, face such obstacles , as the poor state of roads and lack of road markings.

According to the director of the "smart car" Mike Bell, the system will be able to help not only road services and robomobilyam, but directly by the owners of these cars. It will automatically adjust the suspension, which, in theory, should add comfort when riding on the road is not very good. Система JLR suspension comprises a liquid with magnetic particles, the viscosity of which can change rapidly under the influence of the electromagnetic field, thereby changing the stiffness of the suspension on the fly.

A company representative expressed the hope that such a system would make the repair of roads more efficient and prevent costly breakdowns and even car accidents. In the UK alone, according to some estimates, car repair, related to road roughness, costs in the amount of £ 2.8 billion a year.

The company plans to install stereoscopic systems scan the road. If the current system gets the best data only when the machine passes over bumps in the road, then the future will have to evaluate the pit located in front of the car. It is also planned to feature automatically send the image of the pit together with a GPS-coordinates in the road service.

Jaguar company was founded in Britain in 1922 and initially made wheelchairs for motorcycles. The company Rover Company was founded there in 1878 for the production of tricycle. Obi these companies in 2002 acquired the American company Ford Motor Company, which then sold them in 2008 to Indian automaker Tata Motors . Tata started working in 1954 as a joint venture with Daimler-Benz AG (now - simply Daimler AG) company to sell cars in India. Currently, Tata assembles cars in India, UK, South Korea, Thailand, Spain and South Africa.

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