In Tokyo, but with his American chief, he created his latest research institute, Toyota. The goal is bold: from 2020 to send the first self-propelled cars to the road.
As a supercomputer rolling on four wheels, James Kuffner, director of TRI-AD (Toyota Research Institute Advanced Development), is apostrophe. The task of the institution is to prepare marketable products - or as the boss puts it, to create a bridge between prototypes and serum variants.
Of course, TRI-AD does not develop cars, but autonomous systems: in Hungary they will be thanked for the realization of Toyota's idea, and in the near future (even next year) self-propelled cars can be marketed. Not only does the company consider itself as a car industry in its work and approach: its software developer is a cloud specialist and wants to be able to embrace the Silicon Valley approach to Toyota as a whole.
An important pillar of the Institute's software development work is that Toyota has recently begun to collect large amounts of data from its cars. The key to success, of course, is to reduce costs: in order not to be a curiosity but a real market product, the cost of the technology must be reduced to less than half of the current price, one of Kuffner's colleagues told the Automotive News magazine.
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