12.12.2025

SAINTS visit to Jaguar Land Rover

We spent Wednesday, December 10, 2025, learning about AI safety in the field of automotive. SAINTS visited the Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) site in Warwickshire, in a partner visit hosted by JLR Research. The aim was to learn about how our partner organisation is responding to rapid changes within the Automated Vehicles (AV) landscape across various areas of ML development.

JLR has been at the forefront of British automotive engineering for the last century. It was great to learn in depth about how engineers at JLR are responding to the complex regulatory, engineering and societal challenges posed by AV technologies. We were pleased to hear from a range of presenters across JLR, from ML engineers through to specialists in Functional Safety.

It wasn’t bad to see some prototypes and famous models in the JLR atrium, either!

The day gave rise to various conversations across AI ethics, governance and engineering, with plenty of reflections on the SAINTS CDT interdisciplinary training courses and new perspectives from engineers at JLR. With various new standards introduced recently to complement ISO26262, the day emphasised the need for close collaboration between industry, research teams and interdisciplinary viewpoints in order to reflect the changes we’ll see as AV technologies are increasingly deployed into the UK’s roads and beyond.

We’re looking forward to future events and collaborations with JLR in the future. As industry partners to the SAINTS CDT, we had a variety of interesting discussions and questions for follow up. We’re looking forward to welcoming the JLR Research team to future workshops and taking the day’s discussions towards action-oriented, practical research based in through-life responsible innovation.