Toyota is investing $50 million into artificial intelligence research in partnership with MIT and Stanford University.
Toyota, the world’s largest car maker, envisions cars of the future that will act as “guardian angels,” watching the driving behavior of humans and intervening to correct mistakes or avoid collisions when needed.
Dr. Pratt said Toyota’s goal was to keep the “human in the loop” in the car of the future and to ensure that driving remained fun. “A worry we have is that the autonomy not take away the fun in driving,” he said. “If the autonomy can avoid a wreck, it can also make it more fun to drive.”
Driver assistance technology — like pedestrian and bicyclist detection and avoidance systems, lane-departure warning and “lane keeping” systems, and software programs that alert drivers that they are becoming drowsy — have already become standard safety options from carmakers.
The Toyota program will focus on developing more artificial-intelligence-based monitoring systems. For example, in the future, an A.I. system might do more than warn drivers that they are leaving their lane and actively correct all kinds of driver errors. Another possibility might be to use A.I. technologies to permit aging drivers to continue to drive by offering driver assistance in areas like vision and reaction time.
Via: [The New York Times]
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