Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles Ltd.

Tata Motors’ subsidiary -- Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has demonstrated a range of innovative research technologies that would allow a future autonomous car to drive itself over any surface or terrain. JLR’s multi-million pound autonomous all-terrain driving research project aims to make the self-driving car viable in the widest range of real life, on-and off-road driving environments and weather conditions.

To enable this level of autonomous all-terrain capability, Jaguar Land Rover’s researchers are developing next-generation sensing technologies that will be the eyes of the future autonomous car. Because the sensors are always active and can see better than the driver, this advanced sensing will ultimately give a vehicle the high levels of artificial intelligence required for the car to think for itself and plan the route it should take, on any surface.

Further, surface identification and 3D path sensing research combines camera, ultrasonic, radar and LIDAR sensors to give the car a 360-degree view of the world around it, with sensors so advanced that the car could determine surface characteristics, down to the width of a tyre, even in rain and falling snow, to plan its route.

Tata Motors is India's largest automobile company. Through subsidiaries and associate companies, Tata Motors has operations in the UK, South Korea, Thailand, South Africa and Indonesia. Among them is Jaguar Land Rover, the business comprising the two iconic British brands.