The Toyota Woven Planet subsidiary will take part in Tesla in using special camera technology for its autonomous car project. Woven Planet said it can use a low-cost camera to collect data and train its self-driving system through neural networks, such as Tesla. In this way, the company hopes to keep the cost of remaining low and improve the vehicle project that drives itself, the Reuters report quotes the word company.
Tesla, for its autonomous vehicle, has collected data through the camera, and has found it as a reliable and accurate way to determine the advantages and disadvantages of a system. The autopilot and full self-driving suites are based on it. This approach can be scaled, and cheaper than autonomous vehicles that seek to collect data through sensors, which are clearly expensive.
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“We need a lot of data. And it’s not enough to only have a small amount of data that can be collected from a small fleet of very expensive autonomous vehicles,” Michael Benisch, Vice President of the Engineering in Woven Planet, was quoted as saying in the Reuters report (open on the new tab) .
The company plans to use a small cheap camera and artificial intelligence to collect data while driving and this will be a ‘memory’ for autonomous cars to plan a ‘travel’.
For autonomous vehicle projects, Woven Planet has made several strategic acquisitions. Recently acquired a level 5 company, which is the distribution of LYFT, which was formed in 2017, specifically dedicated to self-driving technology. In four years, the Self-Driving Division has achieved public road testing from the fourth generation platform.
Woven Planet has also taken over Carmera Inc., a AI spatial company based in the US specializing in the next generation road intelligence in automatic mobility. CARMERA, a barter-based company, use data collected from services provided free for commercial fleet operators to maintain and expand its main mapping products. Carmera’s main offer is a high definition map developed for autonomous vehicle customers.
By partnering with expert stack software such as apex.ai and absorbing self-driving technology from Lyft and Carmera, Toyota through Woven Planet trying to get at the top of the vehicle game riding himself. Woven Planet already has satellite-based mapping and large quantities of data obtained from millions of vehicles on the current road.