Following news report appeared
in Business Line ( 07 June ) :
“ Tata Elxsi too joins autonomous car
bandwagon “
Tata Elxsi is testing prototypes of
autonomous cars that could soon head for road trials provided necessary
regulatory approvals are in place.
While Tesla, Google, Volvo, Uber and most major automotive companies
have made rapid strides in terms of autonomous cars, Tata Elxsi, the
Bengaluru-based technology company focussing on automotive electronics and
software, has laced
together various technologies on its platform built on artificial intelligence
towards developing the autonomous car.
It has licensed its advanced
autonomous technology platform Autonomai to one of the world’s top five
automotive OEMs for driverless car research and development.
Thangarajan M, Senior Vice-President, Next Generation Business, Tata
Elxsi, told BusinessLine :
“We are working on two prototypes of autonomous cars. One is fairly high-end artificial
intelligence packed with radar, 3-D
Lidar and simulation facilities.
The second one is pretty low-end sedan without much electronics where a
number of elements have been loaded.”
According to
him, “Artificial intelligence-based systems will become integral part of cars
covering speech recognition, driver
monitoring and sensor-based engine control units.
While autonomous cars may still take more time
to get on to roads, various
elements that go into such cars will be all-pervasive.”
What started with pedestrian alerts and collision alerts has
evolved into intelligence built into the systems.
Over the next five years, human-machine interface covering speech
recognition, gesture, handwriting, eye tracking and driver monitoring, virtual
assistance and natural language interfaces would make a collective impact.
“We have worked with major automotive OEMs to analyse the impact of vehicle operation and vehicle
data has been co-related with driver.
The work includes night vision systems, lane depart feature, signboard recognition, pedestrian detection systems, parking assistance systems, driver drowsiness system and blind
spot warning systems,” he said.
Now that TATA have put their technological prowess behind autonomous
cars , my vision of Internet
of Vehicles ( IoV ) , cannot be far behind !
18
June 2017
www.hemenparekh.in/ blogs
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