Hik schreef op 22 december 2017 11:03:
Apple is niet overtuigd van HD-Maps volgens hun onlangs gepubliceerde patent:
In some cases, autonomous navigation is enabled by developing a detailed map of various routes, including data indicating various features of the road (e.g., road signs, intersections, etc.), specifying various driving rules relative to the various routes (e.g., proper speed limits, lane changing speeds, lane locations, variations of driving rules based on various climate conditions and times of day, etc. for a given portion of a given route), and providing the map to autonomous navigation systems of various vehicles to enable the vehicles to autonomously navigate the various routes using the map.
However, development of such a map can require extensive expenditures of time and effort, as developing sufficient data for an individual route can require dispatching a suite of sensors, which can be mounted in a dedicated sensor vehicle, to traverse a route and collect data regarding the various features included in the route, processing the collected data to develop a "map" of the route, determining appropriate driving rules for various portions of the route, and repeating the process for each of the individual routes included in the map. Such a process can require an excessive expenditure of time and effort to develop a map characterizing multiple routes, particularly when the multiple routes span over some or all of the roadways in a major city, region, nation, etc.
In addition, as roadways can change over time, e.g. due to road construction, accidents, weather, seasonal occurrences, etc. such a map can unexpectedly become obsolete and unusable for safe autonomous navigation of a route. Updating a map can require dispatching a sensor suite to re-traverse the route, which can require an expenditure of time. When such an expenditure is considered in view of the sheer volume of potential routes in a roadway network, particularly if multiple routes require updating simultaneously, updating a map of routes in a timely manner, such that vehicle users are not deprived of safe autonomous navigation capabilities, can be difficult.
Apple's invention provides a vehicle configured to autonomously navigate a driving route. The vehicle includes sensor devices which monitor characteristics of the driving route based on the vehicle being navigated along the driving route, and an autonomous navigation system which is interoperable with the sensor devices to:
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"implement a succession of updates to a virtual characterization of the driving route, based on monitoring a succession of manual navigations of the vehicle along the driving route, associate a confidence indicator with the virtual characterization, based on monitoring the succession of updates to the virtual characterization, and enable autonomous navigation of the vehicle along the driving route, based at least in part upon a determination that the confidence indicator at least meets a threshold confidence indication, such that the autonomous navigation system autonomously navigates the vehicle along at least a portion of the driving route, based on controlling one or more control elements of the vehicle and based on a user-initiated command, received at the autonomous navigation system via a user interface of the vehicle, to engage in autonomous navigation of the portion of the driving route." In de meest positieve zin en heel simpel gezegd zou ik het typeren als advanced virtual SLAM (met in het virtuele gedeelte RoadDNA achtige kenmerken, een soort virtuele refetentielayer)
Comma.ai gebruikt trouwens ook SLAM vermeldde George Hotz deze week op Twitter.
Ik denk dat het disruptiegevaar voor TomTom (en HERE) nog niet helemaal geweken is. Of moet ik zeggen: 'fasten your seatbelts and bucklle up' want er komen er nog meer?