First ever driverless Jaguar and Land Rover cars testing on UK roads from TODAY

JAGUAR Land Rover has revealed its first ever driverless cars are testing on public roads right now.

A Jaguar F-Pace and Range Rover Sport have both been kitted out with autonomous tech and are running on the streets of Coventry.

The live trials are part of the £20million UK Autodrive project and will continue into 2018.

The two SUVs are being tested with tech that can talk to each other as well as interact with roadside infrastructure like signs and traffic lights.

The trials will explore how future connected and autonomous vehicles can replicate human behaviour and reactions when driving.

It’s the latest UK-based project following on from the Lutz pods that will run alongside cycle lanes in Cambridge.

But this is the first official UK on-road project making Coventry just one of 12 cities globally conducting public road tests.

Jaguar Land Rover aims to develop full and semi autonomous cars that work both on and off-road in the future.

Nick Rogers, JLR’s executive director of product engineering, said: “Testing this self-driving project on public roads is so exciting.

“By using inputs from multiple sensors, and finding intelligent ways to process this data, we are gaining accurate technical insight to pioneer the automotive application of these technologies.

“Jaguar Land Rover is proud to be a leader in collaborative research projects for autonomous and connected cars.

“We are supporting innovative research that will be integral to the infrastructure, technology and legal landscape needed to make intelligent, self-driving vehicles a reality within the next decade.”