So far self-driving car technology works on regular roads. This is because some systems have been designed to keep an eye out for human-made roads, like turns, bends, traffic light stops, speed signs, and so on. However Land Rover thinks that self-driving cars should be able to drive on any terrain.
The company has recently shown off the progress that they have been making when it comes to creating self-driving cars that will work and adapt to any terrain that it is on. This will see the use of a multitude of sensors such as cameras, lidar, radar, and ultrasonic sound waves, all of which will be able to tell the car what kind of terrain it is on and how to adapt itself accordingly.
This would also allow the car to be able to plot 3D paths that can take into account the ground, but as well as obstacles like low-hanging tree branches that might crack your windshield. Land Rover even suggests that this could be improved upon if multiple cars were used together in an envoy, where data can be collected and shared amongst the cars part of the envoy.
That being said, self-driving car technology is still in the early stages where we have yet to perfect it, let alone release it as a commercial feature, so it seems unlikely that Land Rover’s plan for an all-terrain self-driving car will be hitting the market any sooner.
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