B_B schreef op 19 december 2014 12:43:
bennie, op 17 december 2014 om 11:07 uur
Autonomous Cars Will Require a Totally New Kind of Map
BY GREG MILLER 12.15.14
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Autonomous cars will require maps that differ in several important ways from the maps we use today for turn-by-turn directions. They need to be hi-def. Meter-resolution maps may be good enough for GPS-based navigation, but autonomous cars will need maps that can tell them where the curb is within a few centimeters. They also need to be live, updated second by second with information about accidents, traffic backups, and lane closures.
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Fully autonomous cars will be ready to hit the road as soon as 2017 (according to Sergey Brin), or perhaps sometime in the 2020s (according to more conservative forecasts), or maybe never (according to naysayers)
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HERE uses a combination of computer vision algorithms and manual labor to extract this information and check it against imagery from the cars’ cameras (much like Google extracts similar information from its Street View imagery.)
HERE has outfitted roughly 200 cars with the sensor system Ristevski designed, and the company has a similar number of cars with an older generation of equipment. In Berkeley, Ristevski and I took a quick spin with driver Luke Pulaski in a bright blue Volkswagen Jetta wagon with the sensor equipment mounted on a Thule roof rack. A battery pack and custom Linux box with a terabyte hard drive occupied the space where the legs of a front seat passenger would go. Pulaski logged on to the system with a few taps on a tablet mounted just to his right, and icons turned green to indicate that the cameras and other sensors were working. Turn-by-turn directions appeared, calculated to provide the most efficient route to cover every street in the area to be mapped. “For the most part, the driving is actually boring,” Ristevski said. “It’s designed to be.”
All told, HERE has driven 2 million kilometers (1.2 million miles) in 30 countries on 6 continents, all in the last 15 months. Google, HERE’s main competitor in the race to build maps for autonomous cars, has focused its efforts close to home, reportedly mapping 2,000 miles around its headquarters in Mountain View. (The US road network, for comparison, covers 4 million miles).
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www.wired.com/2014/12/nokia-here-auto...Alleen Here Maps en Google Maps zijn komende jaren geschikt voor zelfrijdende auto's.
Er is niet genoeg tijd om de kaarten van TomTom geschikt te maken voor zelfrijdende auto's.
Best case scenario: Traffic deal met Volkswagen voor TomTom.
Hoelang blijft de samenwerking tussen Vodafone en TomTom?
(de ruggengraat van Traffic)