At the beginning of this year, Ford showed off its self-developed self-driving cars, and said that most of the cars produced in 2021 will have no steering wheel and throttle. Toyota did not have any movement in the autopilot section. It seemed to be falling behind.
But Toyota invests $10 billion a year in research funding. For Toyota, they believe that the ultimate competitive point will be robots.
John Hanson, Communications Director of the Toyota Research Institute, said: "Our research focus will be different. Autopilot can help you navigate freely between cities, but robots can help you climb stairs. So whether it's autonomous or robotic It helps people automate mobile movements.†Moreover, the artificial intelligence and hardware used in many self-driving cars can be used for robots.
"Now the robot will become Toyota's main business. Just as Toyota was founded, the automotive industry is the top priority of Toyota." Gill Pratt is the CEO of Toyota Research Institute and said at this year's Consumer Electronics Show. "And in the future, family robots will become more and more popular beyond the car."
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Toyota said that with the aging of the population, it is expected that the total number of aging population in the world will reach 600 million in the future, so the demand for robots will inevitably exceed the demand for self-driving cars.
Hanson said: "Gill believes that people's demand for robots will exceed that of cars, mainly because our relationship with robots will become more and more intimate, and robots will become pets or family members."
The MIT Science and Technology Review said that GM, Nissan and Germany's Big Three (Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen/Audi and BMW) are now leaders in self-driving cars. Google and Tesla are also important drivers of autonomous driving. But at the same time, Google is also conducting robot research.
Toyota officials said that it is not very important to participate in artificial intelligence or automated competitions, because there are still many problems to be solved in autonomous driving, so Toyota invested $1 million in related research last year. At present, Toyota has established the Toyota Research Institute, which is mainly engaged in research on artificial intelligence and automation, and has also cooperated with companies in the Silicon Valley region, the University of Michigan, Cambridge University, Stanford University and MIT.
Then in April, Toyota said it would establish Toyota Connected Inc. in Plano, a city in northeast Texas. The company will probably have 100 people collecting information about Toyota cars in order to provide better services to drivers, such as warnings on roadside obstacles in advance, or restaurant recommendations based on driver hobbies.
“As a traditional car manufacturer, Toyota has performed very well,†said Dr. Egil Juliussen, Principal Investigator and Technical Analyst at IHS AutomoTIve. “Toyota is very cautious. Before the establishment of the Toyota Research Institute, they have already started to conduct related research. And with the development of artificial intelligence, the complex parts of autonomous driving can be well coordinated. And with the development of chips Deep learning will also accelerate development."
Toyota Connected Inc. began construction in August and was officially put into use in December. The company covers an area of ​​100 acres and Toyota intends to build it as a North American headquarters. The company mainly collects data, and the source is to extract data from its self-driving computer after obtaining the owner's consent. At the same time, these data will be shared with Toyota Research Institute, because Toyota Research Institute is currently facing an important problem, that is, let the computer imitate human thinking.
Zack Hicks, CEO and Chairman of Toyota Connect, said: "We hope that when driving pedestrians across the street, the self-driving car will do the following 'thinking', is he observing the road or playing the phone? And the autonomous car can combine these Think about making driving decisions."
Unlike Ford's fully automated driving experiments from the start, Toyota started with assisted driving. By next year, Toyota will develop an automatic braking system that automatically brakes when the driver has not had time to react. In addition, Toyota has developed a lane departure warning system, and if there is a vehicle in the adjacent lane, the system will automatically remind you. As autopilot systems become more complex, Toyota has built a simple assisted driving system for ordinary vehicles, improving the safety of driving.
Hicks said: "The goal of all car manufacturers is to create cars that will not be damaged even if they collide." Toyota researchers have developed mid-range intelligent self-driving cars, such as cars and can be on the highway. Autopilot. At present, Toyota is not as confident as Google and Ford, and directly conducts research on automatic driving systems.
“We believe that fully automated driving will be achieved in a short period of time, but only for certain specific occasions,†said Hanson, a Toyota Research Institute spokesperson. “But how long it takes to get from automatic to fully automatic, we are not very clear.â€
Before 2014, Toyota CEO, Akio Toyoda was a car enthusiast and was not interested in autonomous driving. Hicks also said: "I think people like driving very much and are not willing to give up driving rights."
But with the rapid development of technology, automakers have also invested a lot of money in related research. And many autopilot systems aim to solve traffic congestion problems in a short period of time, and believe that this selling point will attract many consumers.
In fact, most of the autopilot technology already exists. In the case of Tesla, the Autopilot system can autopilot on the highway. However, the system does not recognize the lane markings and has large defects. In addition, Tesla has had several accidents, which also shows that Autopilot is not perfect.
“We can use the assisted driving system to make the car safer in a short time,†Hanson said. "But there are still some shortcomings. For example, if a self-driving car is driving, it meets a bicycle and a school bus, how to choose a self-driving car, is it a bicycle or a school bus?"
Juliussen, an IHS analyst, said that with increasing competitive pressures, autopilots will be perfect. “One in a million accidents is very difficult to predict and respond to, but overall autonomous driving is still safer than human driving.â€
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