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Today we met with press and key stakeholders to highlight the key achievements of the project. These achievements are summarised in the info-graphic below. We will, of course, follow this up with the final project report which we hope to publish at the end July/beginning of Aug.       TIME IT TAKES TO TEST AUTOMATED DRIVING TECHNOLOGIES SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCED THANKS TO MOVE_UK TRIALS19/6/2019
“Through our modern Industrial Strategy’s Future of Mobility Grand Challenge, we want the UK to be at the forefront of a new era of driving for the 21st century and beyond.  “As the MOVE_UK project nears its conclusion, it’s important to recognise the progress we’ve made in developing automated and connected vehicle technology here in the UK. The ‘real world’ driving data collected is incredibly valuable, and is contributing to ground-breaking work across the consortium. As the project’s lead partner, we are delighted with the success of the new validation method, as we take a significant step towards achieving fully autonomous driving and our vision of accident-free and stress-free driving.” - Executive Vice President and Head of Mobility Solutions, Bosch UK, Arun Srinivasan Real-world trials of the consortium’s “Connected Validation” methodology, conducted in and around the Royal Borough of Greenwich, have found that 8,500 hours of driving can be distilled into just 450 short driving sequences where on-board systems detected a potential hazard. Only 25 of these sequences were classed as “critical” braking situations which are highly relevant for the validation of the next generation of driver assistance systems. Conventional approaches to validation typically involve engineers poring over thousands of hours of data captured predominantly from track testing, but the huge amounts of information generated by driverless systems make these more traditional methods impractical. The new technique used by MOVE_UK limits the amount of information collected, by only recording data from the most relevant events; this significantly reduces the time it takes to process and analyse the data and bring a roadworthy system to market. The Connected Validation approach could also be applied after launch of a new system to market, allowing system engineers, and potentially approval authorities and insurers, to monitor safety performance of production systems fitted to end users’ vehicles. The MOVE_UK research programme is not limited to simply developing automated driving technologies, it also allows consortium partners Direct Line Group and The Floow to build more accurate insurance models which will help towards providing future insurance products and pricing that is more closely linked to risk. “Understanding the impact of Autonomous vehicles on insurance is vital for us as a business and for the customers we serve. The Connected Validation process will allow us to get a much quicker understanding on how Autonomous cars will interact with other cars, pedestrians and infrastructure and will play an important role when it comes to identifying the risks that will give consumers the confidence to embrace the technology”. - Director of Motor Development at Direct Line Group, Dan Freedman “Ask anyone about their first few months behind the wheel since passing their test and they’ll tell you how much they've learned. Real world experience counts for a lot and we’ve discovered that, not unexpectedly, humans do not drive to the letter of the law - people speed, cut each other up and make all manner of mistakes. Their interpretation of hazards and safety is markedly different than the Highway Code would have you expect. Autonomous vehicles will need to be programmed to accommodate this real-world behaviour. This will be a critical factor to consider when planning for autonomous mobility in the future and determining how risk is managed,” - Chief Innovation Officer of The Floow, Dr Sam Chapman A fleet of five sensor-equipped Land Rover Discovery Sport vehicles driven by Greenwich council and TRL employees were used to collect MOVE_UK’s data. This fleet will have completed well over 100,000 miles on public roads by the time the project concludes at the end of next month. The advanced sensors fitted to the vehicles give a full 360-degree view, ensuring these tests provide a much better understanding of the behaviour of surrounding vehicles which will be fundamental for the development of safe and ‘human-like’ level 3 and 4 automated driving features. “For decades TRL has been at the forefront of developing international vehicle safety standards. MOVE_UK has generated original data and demonstrated new methodologies that will contribute to the evolution of today’s standards and Type Approval regulations for new vehicles, providing evidence to help ensure they remain robust, relevant and cost effective for vehicles fitted with advanced driver assistance and automated systems. MOVE_UK has also developed analysis techniques, using big data collected by vehicle sensors and cameras, to assess the real world performance of these complex vehicle systems operating in silent mode. Understanding how advanced driver assistance and automated systems perform in the real world context is critical. Efficient validation and verification methodologies are key components to help get safer and approved vehicles on our roads as quickly as possible – ultimately preventing deaths and injuries.” - Academy Director at TRL, Richard Cuerden 
 The MOVE_UK project has now completed 100,000 miles and over 7,400 hours of on road driving, collecting over 330 GB of valuable real world sensor data.
The MOVE_UK trials are designed to capture a balanced sample of driving conditions, operating the vehicles at different times of the day by different drivers in urban, semi-urban and rural areas. Relevant driving assistance systems are being operated in ‘silent’ mode, whereby their features are running in the background and their behaviour can be compared directly to driver behaviour while the response of the vehicle is unaffected. The data collected from the fleet is transferred via mobile network and Wi-Fi to a central, secure location from where it is being analysed remotely using novel data analysis techniques. MOVE_UK has been detailed as a highlight research project in a new magazine 'Driven'. This magazine is published separately in Europe and the US. Driven focuses upon impacts and new developments in the Insurance and Telematics area. This is digitally distributed to wide ranging experts in the Insurance and Telematics field.  The article indicates value MOVE_UK brings to the areas of Insurance and risk understanding. The EU version of the Driven magazine can be accessed digitally here.
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