11th March 2021 9:24 am
A vehicle engineering project involving UK consultancy Ricardo and WorldAutoSteel is exploring the role that advanced steels will play in next generation autonomous and connected vehicles. Jon Excell reports
From the development of algorithms that help driverless cars behave in a more human like manner to advances in the sensing systems that will enable tomorrow’s vehicles to understand and respond to their environment, progress towards the fully autonomous vehicle – where the technology has removed the need for any driver controls – is well under way.
But whilst recent years have seen key advances in the underpinning technologies that will make so-called level five autonomy a reality, until now there has been relatively little attention paid to the structural engineering challenges presented by a technology area that could profoundly impact the way that cars are designed and built.