inspirator schreef op 11 december 2015 12:42:
Once a Dream
Automated driving is coming soon, and whatever form it ultimately takes, supply chains will be deeply affected. Old businesses will fall by the wayside and new ones will flourish.
TomTom is already very active in helping the automotive industry to move toward automated driving, de Vries said. “Our mission is to provide content, software and service components that enable the automated vehicle to see beyond its physical sensors.”
In September TomTom announced it had completed a high definition (HD) map of the entire German highway system. “The HD Map is much more accurate, detailed and feature-rich than the current navigation ‘standard definition’ maps,” de Vries said, “providing an additional reference point to what the car sensors see, and it also provides a longer range.”
TomTom’s Road DNA service also provides enriched content, entailing what de Vries describes as “a continuous ‘pattern’ of the side of the road that can be embedded in the car memory and compared to what its sensors actually see, so the vehicle position can be determined accurately.”
And TomTom is developing Cloud-based services such as ‘Traffic’ and a future-proof mapping platform that can process car sensor data and keep content in the car up to date in real-time.
Similar technologies, services and applications currently being created by other groups are also feeding into and hastening the development of autonomous road transport systems.
The driverless car is no longer science fiction, de Vries said. “I believe the general public is getting more and more aware of this emerging reality. This new era has already started and is for sure more than a dream.” But, he said, the step-by-step approach also means it will take a long time before the whole car park is full of self-driving vehicles.
“In the coming years, between 2016/17 and 2025, the automotive industry will move gradually from current Level 2/3 to Level 4—what we call HAD or Highly Automated Driving—by introducing more and more active-safety/ADAS/Automated Driving features to their new cars.” de Vries said. “It will start with commercial pilot projects, for example 100 Volvo cars on the Gothenberg ring road in 2017, and then introducing more and more cars to the market.
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