Toyota spent $ 1 billion developing a self-driving car
Group manufactured Japan's Toyota Motor will invest $ 1 billion in the next 5 years to develop artificial intelligence technology in both the automotive sector and the self-driving robot housemaid.
Vth, said $ 5 billion will be used to build Toyota Research Institute Toyota with its headquarters located in Silicon Valley. Research Institute operates under the direction of Dr. Gill Pratt, former CEO Projects Agency Defense advanced Research (DARPA) of the US Department of Defense.
Mr. Pratt said the project will focus on developing technology to reduce the error occurs while driving, casualties caused by traffic accidents and contribute to improving the quality of life of people.
The research will focus on the design of automotive software to help find their way, to recognize objects on the road and make safe decisions and smart when in traffic, maybe even doing things such as distribution of goods and arrange the operation of a plant.
Estimates, with sales of 100 million units in the next 10 years and 10,000 km per vehicle / year, Toyota will have 1.000 billion kilometers of data in the field each year for research.
Also, before aging population situation is increasing in Japan and the upcoming US, Toyota is also developing next-generation research robot maid to assist the elderly when traveling, as well as in ordinary life right.
Toyota started studying automated driving technology since the 1990s, but did not disclose specific. Meanwhile, many other large technology corporations in the world continuously announce new projects related to the self-driving car, as recently announced, Google's invention.
According to experts, self-driving vehicles, if widely accepted, would be the revolution that changed the thinking of users, just like the previous smartphone.
Source: chinhphu.vn
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