In order for self-driving cars to find their way on the road, mapping systems have to be developed further. Image source: Shutterstock (#288688688)
With a strong push in the automotive industry for self driving vehicles, the automakers need something which is far more accurate and understandable by the cars, so they know where exactly they are going and in order to achieve this, a mapping system with very high accuracy is required, a system which is far more precise than the modern GPS and which can’t be read by humans. Here maps have already started working on technology which may be made available by 2020. Here uses roof-mounted 96MP camera alongwith a 32 -beam Velodyne scanner along with Novatel GPS Inertial Measurement Units in its fleet which drive aound creating a 3-D road scan and sending it to Here’s cloud where the further recreation of the real world is done with an accuracy in cms.
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