{"id":221302,"date":"2025-09-02T08:12:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T13:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/how-many-self-driving-vehicles-can-one-person-monitor-at-the-same-time"},"modified":"2025-09-02T08:12:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T13:12:15","slug":"how-many-self-driving-vehicles-can-one-person-monitor-at-the-same-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/how-many-self-driving-vehicles-can-one-person-monitor-at-the-same-time","title":{"rendered":"How many self-driving vehicles can one person monitor at the same time?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-many-self-driving-vehicles-can-one-person-monitor-at-the-same-time.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is possible for one person to safely monitor up to five self-driving vehicles at once, according to new research led by Coventry University.<\/p>\n<p>As self-driving vehicle trials expand across the UK, having trained people to intervene remotely if something goes wrong is essential for both safety and reliability.<\/p>\n<p>This kind of remote oversight is likely to be used for services such as driverless buses, <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/delivery+vehicles\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">delivery vehicles<\/a> and robotaxis, where one person monitors several vehicles as they follow fixed routes. It doesn\u2019t apply to private self-driving cars, where a driver would currently need to be in the vehicle and in control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is possible for one person to safely monitor up to five self-driving vehicles at once, according to new research led by Coventry University. As self-driving vehicle trials expand across the UK, having trained people to intervene remotely if something goes wrong is essential for both safety and reliability. This kind of remote oversight is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}