Google’s experiments with self-driving cars have extremely well-publicized. More quietly, on the other side of the Atlantic, scientists at Oxford University in the U.K. have been developing a system which can be fitted to existing cars and could eventually cost as little as $150.
The system has been installed in a Nissan Leaf electric car and tested on private roads around the university. It is not intended to be used all the time, but takes over as a sort of auto-pilot on familiar roads when conditions are good.
The team led by Professor Paul Newman has developed a somewhat different system from Google.
Read more in Tech Europe.