Last week, Land Rover announced that it is developing the ultimate combination of off-road capability and in-car comfiness: self-driving cars that can go off-road.
The $5 million project, called Cortex, will give customers “autonomous car capable of all-terrain, off-road driving in any weather condition.
The problem with taking self-driving off-road is that you give up the predictability of streets designed for cars. No lane lines, no curbs, no reliably stark difference between the road and whatever’s next to it. “Even working out where you can drive becomes more difficult,” Clarke says.
Read the article at Wired.
