Land Rover is making all-terrain autonomy a reality
World-first ‘CORTEX’ project developing off-road self-driving SUVs
KUWAIT CITY, June 2: Land Rover is developing autonomous cars capable of all-terrain, off-road driving in any weather condition.
The world-first ‘CORTEX’ project will take self-driving cars offroad, ensuring they are fully capable in any weather condition: dirt, rain, ice, snow or fog. As part of the project, a ‘5D’ technique combining acoustic, video, radar, light detection and distance sensing (LiDAR) data live in real-time is being engineered.
Access to this combined data improves the awareness of the environment the car is in. Machine-learning enables the self-driving car to behave in an increasingly sophisticated way, allowing it to handle any weather condition on any terrain.
Chris Holmes, Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Research Manager at Land Rover, said: “It’s important that we develop our self-driving vehicles with the same capability and performance customers expect from all Land Rovers.
Self-driving is an inevitability for the automotive industry and ensuring that our autonomous offering is the most enjoyable, capable and safe is what drives us to explore the boundaries of innovation. CORTEX gives us the opportunity to work with some fantastic partners whose expertise will help us realise this vision in the near future.”
Land Rover is developing fullyand semi-automated vehicle technol-
Land Rover making all-terrain
ogies, offering customers a choice of the level of automation, while maintaining an enjoyable and safe driving experience. This project forms part of the company’s vision to make the self-driving car viable in the widest range of real-life, on- and off-road
autonomy a reality.
driving environments and weather.
CORTEX will develop the technology through algorithm development, sensor optimisation and physical testing on off-road tracks in the UK. The University of Birmingham, with its world leading research in radar and sensing for autonomous platforms and Myrtle AI, machine learning experts, join the project. CORTEX was announced as part of Innovate UK’s third round of Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Funding in March 2018. less night after missing a late free throw that would have put the Cavaliers ahead. “We can win this series playing the right way. Everyone in this locker room felt we gave one away but we have a game on Sunday to make up for it and get back on the right track,” Hill said Friday.
“None of us is demoralized. We’re going to bottle up all that frustration from Game One and bring it out for Game Two.
“We’re the last two teams standings. We’re going to fight it out. It shouldn’t be a prom dance. It’s going to be a fight.”
The Warriors, seeking their third title in four seasons from an unprecedented fourth consecutive finals showdown with the Cavs, expect nothing less.
“I don’t expect them to be deflated by Sunday. I expect them to play with great energy out of the gate Sunday,” Warriors guard Klay Thompson said. “If we play with great passion and great focus I think we’ll be fine.”
Cleveland superstar LeBron James had a playoff career-high 51 points, the most in the finals since Michael Jordan a quarter-century ago and the most in the finals in a losing cause.
“He did everything he could to will our team to win,” said Lue, who was asked if James could play better and said, “I hope so. I know it’s asking a lot but he needs to lead by example. He
LeBron James #23 of the Cleveland Cavaliers shoots a layup defended by Kevon Looney #5 of the Golden State Warriors in Game 1 of the 2018 NBA Finals at ORACLE Arena on May 31, 2018 in Oakland,
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needs to keep it up.”
Warriors coach Steve Kerr wants tougher defending on James.
“Overall we did not do a good job on LeBron. He got to spots he wanted to. It’s a team-wide focus and aggression that needs to change,” Kerr said.
“I didn’t think we got him out of any sort of comfort zone and we’ve got to do a better job of that on Sunday.”
Golden State’s Stephen Curry scored 29 points with nine assists, Kevin Durant added 26 points and nine rebounds and Thompson added 24 points. The Warriors have two injured starters, with Andre Iguodala having missed the past four games with a bruised left leg.
“He has done some work. He’s feeling a little bit better,” Kerr said. “I would just call him doubtful for Game Two. We’ll see how it goes.”
Thompson suffered a left leg injury early in Game One but vowed to play through pain.
Former NBA player Rasual Butler had drugs and alcohol in his system when he and his wife died in a one-car accident in January in California.
Butler had alcohol, marijuana, methamphetamine and oxycodone in his system at the time of the crash, according to the Los Angeles County coroner’s office.