Ushering in the autonomous driving era

The R-Car H3 realises automotive computing performance exceeding that of the predecessor R-Car H2. This enables system manufacturers to utilise the new R-Car H3 as an automotive computing platform to play a key role in the autonomous driving era.

To make the new device suitable for driving safety support systems, the R-Car H3 provides cognitive computing capabilities, an enhanced computing performance that can process large volumes of information from vehicle sensors accurately in real time, and enables system manufacturers to run applications that require complex processing, such as obstacle detection, driver status recognition, hazard prediction and hazard avoidance. To further accelerate the driving safety support systems, the R-Car H3 also conforms to the ISO 26262 (ASIL-B) functionality safety for automotive.

Furthermore, in in-vehicle infotainment systems, the need for connectivity between various systems and services such as smartphones and cloud services is growing. These have led to a significant increase in the volume of data transmitted from outside the system. Therefore, there is a demand for human machine interface (HMI) computing to process these large amounts of data accurately in real time. The outstanding performance power of the R-Car H3 makes excellent graphics design possible to realise advanced applications and rich HMI.

The R-Car H3 is an automotive computing platform that is well suited for the autonomous driving era, with significantly improved cognitive computing and HMI computing capabilities for advanced driving support systems as well as in-vehicle infotainment systems.