Apple Patents Autonomous Car Alerts Because Humans Are Unpredictable
Apple has received a patent for an autonomous car system that informs other road users about the vehicle’s current actions. The company has been working on a self-driving system detailing a display that could sit on the exterior of the car, working with GPS directions and other information to provide a clearer picture of how the vehicle will act next.
Apple’s system could provide information to others like how many seconds until the car takes a left turn, how many seconds before it stops, and even if it’s received information about an upcoming obstruction.
Read the article at Inverse.
Parking Facility Caters to Autonomous Vehicles
Chicago-based technology company SpotHero and has geared up 500 of its parking facilities to meet the demands of autonomous vehicles. SpotHero, which helps drivers find parking in cities, has upgraded its facilities using its HeroConnect platform. This allows drivers, the vehicles themselves, garages, car manufacturers and cities to communicate, exchanging data and payments.
The new parking features for driverless cars include license plate recognition, IoT sensors and other capabilities. These allow the unmanned vehicles to book, pay, enter and exit a parking facility without the need for human interaction.
Read the article at Springwise.
Toyota Invests $500 Million in Uber’s Plan to Deploy the World’s Safest Self-Driving Cars
Toyota will invest $500 million in Uber and partner with the nation’s largest ride-sharing service on the development of the autonomous and fully driverless vehicles. Uber and Toyota said they will share research and development efforts on self-driving technologies and move quickly towards putting vehicles into real-world use.
“This agreement and investment marks an important milestone in our transformation to a mobility company,” said Shigeki Tomoyama, executive vice president, TMC, and president, Toyota Connected Company. “Combining efforts with Uber, one of the predominant global ride-sharing and automated driving R&D companies, could further advance future mobility.”
Read the article at The Detroit Bureau.
The Future of Fleet
Every week in FMW we spotlight articles from various sources about mobility: car sharing, ride-hailing, car subscription, and more. What does this mean to fleets?
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Editor in Chief
Re-Thinking the Future of Cars: Electric, Autonomous and Shared
It will take a while for people to get fully comfortable with driverless, electric and shared vehicles. People are going to start thinking about rides as an experience, not just a way to get from A to B.
“There will be two and a half billion people moving into cities over the next 15 years,” Raj Kapoor, Lyft’s chief strategy officer and business head of autonomous driving, said. “There’s no way adding more roads is going to solve that problem. There’s no way selling more cars is going to solve that problem. We need to rethink how people get from A to B, and a lot of it is to share the transportation that’s there.”
Read the article at SingularityHub.
