If touchscreens make you feel futuristic, then what about a touchscreen that you didn’t need to touch at all?
The Indian multinational automotive manufacturing giant Tata Motors Limited owned Jaguar Land Rover has tied up with the University of Cambridge to develop a futuristic touchscreen technology that not at all require the users to touch or press buttons on the screen anymore. This contactless technology has been developed to improve user safety in the wake of the pandemic virus outbreak preventing transmission of bacteria and viruses.
Jaguar Land Rover is part of Tata Motors since 2008. Jaguar Land Rover is Britain’s largest automotive manufacturer which designs, manufactures, and sells some of the world’s most recognized premium cars.
The latest trademarked technology that works with artificial intelligence to guess where the driver will point their finger soon after they make a move towards the screen is being called predictive touch. A gesture tracker then uses radio frequency-based or vision-based sensors to link contextual data such as user profile, environmental conditions, and interface design with data available from other sensors such as an eye-gaze tracker to figure out in real-time user’s intended target on the screen. They said that the new technology can also be released into existing touchscreens through updates, provided the sensors are available along with the user data.
“On-road trials and lab-tests have proved that a predictive touch technology could reduce a driver’s touchscreen interaction effort and time by up to fifty percent,” says Jaguar Land Rover. This technology is further effective over poor road surfaces where using a touchscreen becomes more difficult.
This AI-based technology has reached huge readiness levels and can be seamlessly blended into existing touchscreens so long as there are means to get the sensor data needed for the AI to work efficiently.
This new technology is an initiative under Jaguar Land Rover’s Destination Zero vision. This technology aims to make vehicles safer, moreover the environment around them healthier. Driver attention monitor, engine noise cancellation, and PM 2.5 particulate filter are other technologies towards this goal that have been deployed in Jaguar land Rover cars.
JLR is currently working on a unique technology that will help to reduce the stress of the driver using AI technology. The technology will be available across all the future Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles are claimed to be powerful enough to detect the state of mind of the driver with the help of a camera and biometric sensing monitor.
