Google is going tvfygo
Google is going to be beaten to the punch. For years consumers have eagerly awaited the public launch of the firm’s self-driving cars: autonomous pods that will leave us free to read, watch TV or work on tasks other than driving. Now it seems as if traditional car manufacturers are about to take the lead.
General Motors said that it would spend $500 million with car-hailing service Lyft to build “an integrated network of on-demand autonomous vehicles in the US”. Toyota is building a new research institute to work on autonomy, while Audi, BMW, Ford and others also announced progress in their efforts to develop driverless cars. Mercedes has developed a self-driving research vehicle (pictured above) and taxi app Uber has already announced billions of dollars in autonomous car investment.
On the map
At the moment, Google doesn’t have much of this extra data and neither does anyone else. But now, car manufacturers are banding together to make their own maps, and it looks as if they may be in a better position to do so than the search giant.
Expecting the unexpected
Announcing their acquisition of Here Maps last year, Daimler, Volkswagen and BMW stated that “the high-precision cameras and sensors installed in modern cars are the digital eyes for updating mobility data and maps”.
“For the automotive industry this is the basis for new assistance systems and ultimately fully autonomous driving,” the companies said.
Collective wisdom
“Crowdsourcing is the traditional car companies’ very, very big advantage,” says Rajkumar. “There’s an interesting competition ahead.”
That's all about this one..Further details will be in future posts Thank you.
Comments
Post a Comment