Hyderabad: Some of the vehicle technologies shown in James Bond movies are now not in the realm of imagination. They are available for purchase in the market.
Several manufacturers are embracing Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence and machine learning to provide the extra edge.
On Friday, BMW unveiled an intelligent personal assistant which is aided with Microsoft’s Azure for cars. The owner will be able to use voice commands to turn on lights or the air conditioning, change the radio, and more. BMW’s voice assistant is similar to Amazon’s Alexa and gets to know you better over time with voice commands and usage.
Mercedes Benz is working on a similar feature, MBUX.
The autonomous vehicle-human machine interface and semi-autonomous driving. The automotive artificial intelligence market is expected to exceed $10.73 billion by 2024 globally as a result of technology companies embracing it. While Microsoft is working with BMW, HCL forayed into autonomous vehicles in devising safety systems for cars.
Electric car maker Tesla is many notches ahead in using AI in its vehicles, including creating its own hardware. Tesla has collected billions of miles worth of real-world driving data since 2012.
Waymo, BMW, Toyota, Mercedes Benz, Tata Motors and General Motors are upping their game in using technology especially AI.
Be it parking assist or assistants or self-driven cars, customisation has become key. Major car-makers are investing heavily in development of computer science for cars for control, advanced driver help systems.
Land Rover as part of Project Cortex is developing a ‘5D’ technique combining acoustic, video, radar, light detection and distance sensing (LiDAR) data live in real-time for self driven cars. Jaguar Land Rover India told this newspaper: “Machine learning enables the self-driving car to behave in an increasingly sophisticated way, allowing it to handle any weather condition on any terrain.”
The company said Cortex was a 30-month collaborative project launched in March to support development and delivery of self-driving vehicles in the UK. It brings together leading technology and automotive expertise as well as academia to deliver highly capable self-driving vehicles.
“Access to this combined data improves the awareness of the environment the car is in,” JLR said.
Cars have become large smart devices due to the rapid strides made in automotive technology during the last half-a-decade.
Tata Motors said, “In the coming years, our industry is poised to advance further, moving us closer to a more connected and digitised environment. While globally we aren’t very far away from a future replete with electric and even autonomous cars but also with various emerging technologies such as advanced emergency braking, predictive vehicle technology such as artificial intelligence and machine learning can play a huge role in the Indian transportation ecosystem.”
