Corporation Toyota, regularly confirms the status of world's largest automaker, can afford not only the substantial costs on development, but protracted experiments to promote new technologies to the mass market.
As reports Computerworld citing comments from Toyota, the automaker warned against the perception of the existing systems car automatic control as perfect and ready for use in the real world. The current generation of systems is more or less safe in a landfill, they rely heavily on pre-formed digital maps and the available sensors such as lidar, cameras and ultrasonic sensors . As stated by the automaker for greater autonomy autopilot systems require technology artificial intelligence, which will speed up decision-making in unfamiliar terrain and rapidly changing environment.
According to Toyota representatives , autopilot system are just beginning their evolutionary development. Earlier it was reported that acceptable for use in cars with the autopilot version of artificial intelligence in the company expects to create by 2020. At the appropriate development will spend at least a billion dollars, and the United States will set up a research center for Toyota. The local market is of great importance for the company. In addition, the US authorities are loyal enough to the test vehicle with the autopilot on public roads .