Toyota, TomTom and Denso are working together to create a fast, high-definition map-building method for roads to facilitate autonomous driving.
Toyota Research Institute Advanced Development, Inc., TomTom and Denso executed a proof of concept demonstration of the system.
The companies used Toyota test vehicles equipped with Denso sensors, Toyota’s automated mapping platform and TomTom’s cloud-based transactional mapping platform.
The sensors are used to collect road observations, which are then converted and corrected by Toyota’s platform for input into TomTom’s mapping platform.
“We believe a multi-sourced HD map is essential to making safer autonomous driving possible,” stated Willem Strijbosch, head of autonomous driving at TomTom.
Ithough Tom Tom was killed off by Garman, and then garman killed off by Bing maps, then swallowed up by Google?
What about Mapquest. ?