TomTom and Volkswagen are working on autonomous car

Posted on 02-10-2014 at 9:28 by sir_smokalot – 1 Comment”

The Dutch navigatiespecialist TomTom and Volkswagen Group Research, save the hands, with the goal of developing autonomous rijsystemen.

The parties locks today a letter of intent in order to so-called Highly Automated Driving (HAD) systems. For autonomous cars is a highly detailed digital map is essential. TomTom has the kaartenkennis, and VW the research for autonomous systems. The hope is now that the parties of each other’s strong points to use.

Currently has a map enough to geometry, street names, and addressing, but for stand-alone systems is much more need real-time information, with more detail of nature; in the field of road markings and traffic lights for example. The “Navigation Data Standard” (NDS), where TomTom and VW to work on this with, without the apply of priceless hardware.

Photo: Belgian VW with a navigatiedefect, autojunk.nl