The speaker Philippa Oldham was the lead author of the IMechE Report "Autonomous and Driverless Cars", you can read the news story here.

Autonomy in the context of a car or vehicle implies that decisions taken by the embedded software in the vehicles control system will be sufficiently intelligent to recognise events on the road which, we as drivers may deal with out of experience, intuition or anticipation. The sensors on board the vehicle will have to sense pedestrians, bends, other vehicles, cyclists, horses, road blocks and deviation signs and adverse weather conditions. The designers of autonomous vehicles still have a lot of work to do.

In her lecture, Philippa will discuss many of these challenges and touch upon the legislative, societal and insurance issues which need to be resolved before autonomous vehicles can be integrated onto our road network.

Is the debate around Autonomous and Driverless Cars becoming any clearer? 

Would you be prepared to be a passenger in one of these cars?

Event is free and open to non-members and members.

Guests are welcome, so it is hoped that members attending the lecture will also bring younger people from their schools, work or family members. 

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