GM's Using Cameras on Customer Cars to Build Self-Driving Car Maps
http://www.wired.com/2016/01/gms-building-self-driving-car-maps-with-cameras-on-customer-cars/
The automaker is exploring new technology from Mobileye, an
Israeli provider of visual processing chips and software.
Mobileye's tech can detect vehicles, pedestrians, and other
obstacles, as well as road markings, signs, and traffic lights.
It's the stuff that powers popular features like lane departure
warnings, and is installed on hundreds of thousands of GM cars.
GM's plan is to pull that camera data, via its OnStar system,
from customer cars to create highly detailed, constantly updated
road maps. Those maps would allow an autonomous vehicle to know
its location within about 10 centimeters. That's a huge
advantage over current GPS systems, which count their margins of
error in meters--good enough for knowing what street you're on,
but not for navigating a robo-car through traffic.
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Wondering what GM will say when law enforcement comes around wanting
access to all that dandy data?
--Lauren--
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