HERE wants to be the maps guiding your self-driving car
Dec08
on December 8, 2015
at 5:30 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Audi, Autonomous vehicles, BMW, Here Maps, Insider, maps, Mercedes, self-driving cars
HERE Maps, formerly a part of Nokia, announced its plans to accelerate its efforts to map the globe and make its data openly available. The company, which was acquired by car makers Audi AG, BMW Group and Daimler AG for $3 billion in August, says it’s working on high-resolution maps to enable autonomous vehicle technology. In a blog post, it explains: … what if map data is not only designed for direct consumption by people, but also to be read by machines capable of processing vast quantities of information? When we build maps that need to be understood only by software then the…
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