Artificial Intelligence

  Real autonomous driving with limited or no human interaction is still many years away, according to analysis by Semicast Research. Almost every vehicle maker and seemingly every tech company has now announced plans to introduce semi autonomous and fully autonomous vehicles.

Renesas Electronics and Cogent Embedded have announced their joint development of a 3D surround view solution to assist drivers during parking or low speed manoeuvres. Designed for parking assist systems in entry and mid-level cars, the new solution combines the Renesas R-Car V3M System-on-Chip (SoC), which incorporates a dedicated image rendering unit (IMR) that delivers realistic 360º surround view, with Cogent’s customisable softwar...

  Millions of Brits are opposed to the introduction of driverless cars because they fear they will crash - and could be too easily hacked. Research revealed 44% of motorists are against the space age vehicles hitting the nation's highways. Almost three-quarters feared a malfunction and a similar amount said they didn’t trust a computer to keep other drivers safe.

For some, hearing the phrase, 'Individualised, highly flexible, totally efficient local public transport' sounds like an oxymoron. It certainly is not a way many would describe the current state of public transportation. Buses, subways and other forms of public transit are pretty much the exact opposite of 'individualised', as crowded cars are a twice daily reality for commuters worldwide. And the only way most of them can be characterised a...

Licensor of signal processing IP for smarter, connected devices, CEVA, has announced that Nextchip, a fabless company specialising in embedded vision applications for ADAS systems, has licensed the CEVA-XM4 imaging and vision platform for its APACHE4 vision-based pre-processor targeted at real time ADAS vision systems. Nextchip have incorporated CEVA’s programmable vision platform into the APACHE4 alongside its differentiated image processi...

  To develop a platform for connected safety, Advanced Driver Assistance Support (ADAS) and Autonomous Driving (AD) software and functions, Ericsson will collaborate with Zenuity, an automotive software development.

It has been announced that Renesas Electronics and Codeplay Software are collaborating to deliver ComputeAorta, Codeplay’s OpenCL open standard-based software framework for Renesas R-Car system-on-chips (SoCs). The framework will be available first on R-Car H3 as a proof of concept, then focusing on R-Car V3M and other R-Car SoCs of the Renesas autonomy Platform for advanced driving assistance system (ADAS) and automated driving.

  Emerging wireless and cellular 5G technologies are bringing a new level of connectivity to cars and enabling many applications to support safety, efficiency, and Internet access. Connectivity is a natural complement to other kinds of automotive sensors that are also being integrated in vehicles.   

  On the 5th September 2017, DRIVEN consortium unveiled the first three of its proposed fleet of six self-driving vehicles, a white and blue 2014 Ford Fusion Titanium hybrid, a 2017 Ford Mondeo hybrid and a Range Rover Evoque.

A few years ago, augmented reality technology seemed primed to have a major cultural moment. Hyped up by tech blogs, Google Glass captured the public imagination before it was ever seen by consumers. People envisioned themselves walking around with computerised eyeglasses that projected ratings onto restaurants they passed and traffic reports onto roads they were driving. Author: Sam Chase, The Connected Car