A produced by the BBC, and filmed in Southampton, is now available to view online.
The report, recorded at the University鈥檚 driving simulator at the Boldrewood Innovation Campus, shows BBC Transport Correspondent Richard Westcott participating in a test using the University鈥檚 driving simulator. , Professor of Human Factors in Transport within Engineering and the Environment, also features in the report.
Southampton, in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, is leading the 拢11m聽 project to investigate how drivers will react to new autonomous systems.
Professor Stanton said:
鈥淭he big unknown is how the driver will behave in these situations of handing control over and taking control back and, indeed, what they鈥檒l get up to when the computer is driving the car.鈥�
The report is available via the Business pages of the and shared via the University鈥檚 and accounts. BBC News Online has, on average, over 4 million daily visitors to the site and nearly 14.2 million daily page views.
In a second feature broadcast by the BBC, Dr Yi Qiu 聽and the University鈥檚 multi-axis simulator in the Human Factors Research Unit also featured on the televised Breakfast programme as part of a week-long series on commuting and the its future. Dr Qiu talked about his research into vibration and the impact on passenger comfort and was able to demonstrate this to the reporter using the simulator.