The Japanese company Toyota wants to give preference to the cheap cameras as data material for autonomous driving.
Recently, the Japanese manufacturer Nissan be new ProPilot system presented, which is based on lidar, now Toyota wants to go for cameras? With the new lidar-using system, Nissan wants to provide autonomous driving by 2030. Previously, people wanted to rely on cameras, like the manufacturer in particular Tesla. Musk’s car company does without lidar entirely and relies entirely on cameras, which means the high costs for lidar sensors is owed.
In this mixed situation, Toyota now also wants to rely more on cameras and less on lidar. However, one does not want to give up the lidar sensor, but to make the test data sets cheaper. According to Reuters, Toyota is working with the subsidiary woven planet to turn back the costs for the development of autonomous driving and thus advance the development.
The cost reduction should make research cheaper. The collected data from the sensors are used to teach the vehicle to drive. You now want to fall back on cheap sensors. In this regard, one refers to the many Toyota vehicles, with the help of which one would get enough data. However, this data mostly comes from cameras.