CES 2016: Toyota maps out future
Next-gen sat-nav combines onboard cameras with GPS to boost accuracyToyota has announced it will reveal its next-generation satellite-navigation at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas next month.
The Japanese car-maker says the new system will boost accuracy and guidance precision because it will use production vehicles to remap road networks.
Using onboard cameras, the new maps are generated when data, along with images, are uploaded to data centres where highly accurate maps are created.
Toyota says the next generation of maps will perfectly map out road layouts, traffic restrictions, speed limits and signage and be so accurate they will even include dividing lines and kerbs.
The Japanese car-maker says the new system will also be far more accurate than the current 3D road scanners because they’ll be updated far more regularly.
Addressing criticisms over reliability (cameras and GPS are less accurate than 3D lasers), Toyota says any positional errors can eliminated by using data recorded by multiple vehicles along the same stretch of road and mitigating the errors by using image matching software that reduces the margin of error on straight roads to just 5cm.
Toyota says it will introduce its innovative crowd sourced mapping along with its fully autonomous driving aids in production vehicles come 2020.
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