Autonomous Trucks
Toyota, GM Sign Tech Partners to Expand Vehicle Advanced Driver-Assistance CapabilitiesWith cars and trucks constantly gaining new driver-assistance features to increase on-the-road safety, two of the world’s largest automakers are bringing in new partners to help boost their technologies. GM is the first commercial enterprise to license MENNDL from ORNL for use outside the laboratory. Toyota, ZF and MobileyeFor Toyota, Mobileye’s EyeQ4 vision computing system-on-chip (SoC) will be combined with ZF’s Gen 21 mid-range radar technology to help prevent and mitigate collisions while yielding best-in-class lateral and longitudinal vehicle control, according to Intel. The EyeQ4 combines enhanced computational capabilities with computer vision algorithms to rapidly process information from a vehicle’s front-facing camera to provide ADAS capabilities. The GM deal is more aggressive as the company wants to develop in-house capability and not be dependent on third-party technologies.