Sheffield firm gets behind the wheel of driverless car project
A SHEFFIELD telematics company is part of a £5.5m project to develop driverless car technology in the UK.
Business Secretary Sajid Javid has announced the multi-million-pound grant from InnovateUK to MOVE-UK, a consortium led by Bosch which includes The Floow alongside Transport Research Laboratory (TRL), Jaguar Land Rover, Direct Line Group and the Royal Borough of Greenwich.
The driverless technology will be trialled in real world conditions on roads in Greenwich, London.
Automated driving requires a large amount of data, which needs extensive validation to ensure that systems respond to a wide range of real world driving situations.
The Floow’s telematics will allow the consortium to compare the behaviour of the vehicle to that of a human driver in the same real world environment.
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Sam Chapman, chief innovation officer at The Floow, said: “The Floow is an independent UK SME who supports the leading insurers of the world, serving their actuaries with the industry’s most advanced mobility understanding.
“It has the largest independent science team in the telematics industry – we push the data frontier, delivering proven predictive analytics and digital end-user services that transform insurance operations.”
The Floow’s telematics will allow the consortium to compare the behaviour of the vehicle to that of a human driver in the same real world environment.
The three-year project will see driverless systems tested in the real world, providing large amounts of data that will be used to develop and improve the technology.
